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Strategies & Market Trends : Groundhog Day -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (4685)	5/13/2002 10:00:56 PM
From: GraceZ	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6346

That reminds me of a funny computer fix story. I work on a lot of friend's and client's computers, simply because I like to and I find it easy. About seven years ago, I had a client who was a writer. He told me he was having a really hard time with this computer of his, the video was screwed up. He said he had learned to work fast because if he worked too long, the stuff on the screen would start scrolling. It started out slowly and then would speed up. He'd keep right on working even while it was scrolling until it got too fast for him to read. I told him I had all kinds of video cards laying around, so I'd grab a few and come look at his machine. I popped the cover off and immediately realized that none of my cards would work since the computer was an old XT. It had an amber monitor. So I figured I'd see what I could do. I turn the thing on and it immediately started scrolling so I instinctively reached around the back of the monitor and twisted the little horizontal hold button and the scrolling stopped. Then I proceeded to do a little investigation of his hard drive (hey, at least it had a hard drive-it had been a while since I'd looked at one of these animals-it was like a stroll down memory lane). He came over a little later and saw me fumbling over all my old DOS commands. "What did you do? You fixed it! It doesn't scroll any more." Meanwhile this guy had been trying to work with this situation for a year and all he had to do was reach around the back.