These threads are alwayts funny to me. I really can't understand how I can learn something in 5 minutes, and 5 years later my dad still doesn't know his hard drive from the monitor.
We recently upgraded him from his pentium 80 (I'm not kidding) because it couldn't load all the new software we were running. His reasoning the last 10 years was that it was hard enough upgrading the 286 he was running, and had just gotten used to the "new" pentium machine.
He ended up with a laptop (apparently it's AMAZING being able to take a computer home and do work) but GOOD GOD is it hard to watch him try to operate it. I tried to convince him to get a docking station, but he wanted to try and learn how to use the machine before getting something that would make his life easier. It's kinda sad (and funny) watching a 57 yr old man hunched over his desk scrolling around on the mousepad with one finger, doubleclicking everything in site, and adding it to his favorites menu.
The kicker is that he still doesn't believe the "wireless thing" works on his computer (you have to turn it on by pressing a button on the laptop) and insists on plugging it into random network cables around the office. How else can he print out his non-work related cattle EPD's from a DOS based program written in the year 1825???
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