24 Jan
2001
24 Jan
'01
5:04 a.m.
Alex Holden skrev:
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Tony Duell wrote:
> 'standard' to most people. I've got fed up with explaining to the goons
> in the local PC shops that a standard serial port has 25 pins on a DB25
You've made the classic mistake of thinking that
the kind of person who
works in Tandy or PC World actually cares about the things that they sell.
On the rare occasions that I need to go into a high street shop, I just
keep my head down and try to scare away any assistants who get too close
with a blast of jargon (which sometimes backfires when they misinterpret
what I said to mean "I'm an idiot, please try to sell me an overpriced
PC"). Trying to explain things like the difference between a Winmodem and
a Hayes compatible modem, or active versus passive SCSI termination, is
almost always an exercise in futility.
Don't forget the classic "Oh no, you can't do that on platform XXX!" or
"What
are you going to do with that old junk?".
I usually just try to keep a low profile and give out as little information as
possible when buying something from mainstream shops.
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