Way back in the 80’s when I was in the market for my first computer I was looking to see what Sears had to offer. The little sales girl comes up to ask if I needed assistance. I asked how many k the computer I was looking at had. She replied with complete sincerity, “One on the keyboard.”
I got a nifty computer back in '97, when I was living in the US. In '98 I was coming back to Spain. In order to be able to bring my computer over, I would have needed a converter (both plug type and voltage). Having checked the wattage needed by the 'puter, I headed to an electronics store.
I was chatting with a salesgirl, who told me that she didn’t think they had what I needed, let me check… no, we have plug converters but they don’t have a transformer.
Her boss came by, stood between us girls (he didn’t physically push her out of the way, but if she hadn’t stepped back she would have eaten a shoulder) and asked what did I need. I asked “do you have transformers for european current? I only need 40 watts.”
He called me dear and explained that Europe uses the same current and that it’s not watts, it’s volts and it’s 125, nobody uses 40 volts. I explained that European current is 250 volts and that, having an Engineering degree, if I say watts I mean watts, you know, the value you get by multiplying voltage times amperage times the sinus of the phase, which in this case is one because the phase is zero? His employee was shaking with laughter but she managed to hold it in.
The server our lab (Comp Chem) used in graduate school had “5G of memory”. We bought another one and one of my coworkers, hearing the boss boast about the “5G of memory” said “but you mean hard drive, right? It can’t be RAM, that much memory…” Bossman said “memory, they have 5G of memory, they don’t have this hard drive and ram things.”
ASCII stupid question… get a stupid ANSI!
Sorry, that’s all I’ve got… (D&R)
I asked the dipshit salesman at Best Buy this weekend if I could get one of the new computers loaded with WinXP instead of Vista.
“No,” he replied. “These computers aren’t compatible with Windows XP. It won’t run on them. You have to have Vista.”
Now that’s funny and sad at the same time. Even sadder will be your search for a computer that is sold with XP. Good luck! (Dell did sell me a laptop with it recently, but don’t think they will sell a desktop with it).
just yesterday my roommate’s girlfriend was told that she would need a “Vista Compatible Mouse” :dubious:
I asked a woman at the science center if she wanted to receive our e-mail newsletter. She said yes, and then when I asked her for her e-mail address?
"Oh, I don’t use e-mail, I don’t have a computer.
Huh?
Late 90s, overheard in a Circuit City–One of the salespeople talking to a customer who wanted to buy a Mac:
“Apple stopped making Macintoshes, because they couldn’t do color. Now they just make Performas.”
For those two young to remember, the Performa was one of several color Macintoshes – it even said “Macintosh” right on the case. These weren’t even particularly early ones; color Macs had been around for years.
The wife and I took her parents to Seaworld a few days ago… we went in to the manatee display.
Me: “Hehe… that manatee looks just like Ool!” (Ool being our fat cat who tends to roll around on the floor much like a manatee… if manatees, in fact, rolled around on floors, that is…))
Wife: “What’s a manatee?”
Me: pointing to the manatee that was staring my wife in the eye through the glass “That is!”
Wife: :smack: