Re: floppy eject buttons [was: What's a Real Computer?]

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From: Chad Irby
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1995 20:45

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Kazimir Kylheku (c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca) wrote:

: Actually, Joe, I made some decent money a few years ago helping Mac users
: figure out their 'puters. I got into it by "accident" -- I advertized myself
: as a computer expert, but wasn't specific. It's funny how almost all my jobs
: turned out to be Mac related. People wanted me to do all kinds of stuff from
: graphics to database design.  If it is so easy, why do people need to
: hire help?

Because there's only 24 hours in a day and seven days in a week?

I get lots of work from people who need things *right now*, and it's more 
cost-effective for them to pay me a lot of money to come fix the machine 
than it is for them to spend the three hours figuring things out for 
themselves.

This week, I'm going to be paid an obscene amount of money to do some 
graphics work because the guy who is normally paid to do it needs to 
sleep more than ten minutes a night.

Not to mention the occasional user who Really Doesn't Want To Use 
Computers, Dammit!

...and the problems I really earn my fee on are things like "I think our 
network got struck by lightning" (it was)- "can you help us?" (I did).  

Most of my clients have minor problems- and I can fix about half of those 
over the phone.  About a quarter of the problems I see are fixable by 
removing Microsoft products from the hard drive (OLE is a major culprit).
-- 

Chad Irby           /    My greatest fear: that future generations will,
cirby@gate.net     /      for some reason, refer to me as an "optimist."

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Subject: Re: floppy eject buttons [was: What's a Real Computer?]
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