Friday, March 31, 2006

Picnic

I am, what some call, a techie. That is, when my friends destroy their computers, they call me. I can fix anything in any computer. They have been a hobby of mine for a long time. I had a PC before there were PC's. It was a Z80. Anyone remember those? Then there was the 8080, followed by an 8086, an 80286, 80386 and 80486. The Pentium you know today was originally an 80586.

Consequently, techies like me have terms normal people don't know. My favorite is 'Picnic'. This is the most common problem with computers today. Anyone want to guess what that means? It means 'Problem In Chair, Not In Computer'.

4 Comments:

Blogger Carrie said...

Well, you know me, and Life is a PICNIC, huh?
NOw, how fast can you get here to teach my Microsoft Office so I can get a job?

Saturday, April 01, 2006 10:59:00 AM  
Blogger Tramp said...

MS Office is easy. No matter what you do, it's wrong. I have an MS Office post coming up.

Saturday, April 01, 2006 11:22:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I dont rem a Z80 tho I had a Trash 80 (TSR or TRS 80) Tandy with massive 48K of memory and dual floppies

Tuesday, February 26, 2008 11:17:00 PM  
Blogger Tramp said...

The Z80 was a blistering 8 Mhz machine. That put the sluggish TRS 80's 4 Mhz to shame!

Thanks for reading FSN, I appreciate all of the readers. And your comments make my day!

Wednesday, February 27, 2008 6:13:00 PM  

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