Help! My Mouse Climbed A Wall And Now It Doesn't Work Right
The Register, Friday, April 26th, 2024
Support chap learns users will try to solve problems in non-obvious ways
As another week drains down the plughole of history, it's time for The Register to once again deliver a fresh instalment of On Call - our weekly reader-contributed tale of tech support torments and triumphs.
This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Barry," who shared a story from the early 1990s, when he was a student of IT. One summer, Barry scored a gig as a tech intern at an architecture firm.
"It was still the time of such things as 5 1/4" floppy disks, and mice were still a novelty," he told On Call.