Throwback Thursday: Pics, or it didn’t happen

Back in the days when PCs weren’t yet on every desk, pilot fish gets a call from a client with a week-old PC — and he’s in a panic.

“When I delivered the new machine to him, I told him that he should refrain from turning his computer on and off too many times during the day,” says fish. “I said two or three times would be OK.”

Now the newbie user is telling fish that he can’t plug in the mouse and keyboard, and he needs to answer an important email that has just arrived.

Fish doesn't get it. After all, the PS/2 connectors on the mouse and keyboard will only go in one way. How hard can reconnecting them be? And anyway, how does the client know this time-critical email is even there? Isn’t the PC turned off?

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