Date   : Tue, 01 Sep 2009 23:30:08 +0100
From   : afra@... (Phill Harvey-Smith)
Subject: OT Only Connect

Rick Murray wrote:
> It's better than when I visited PC World in Guildford back in 2001 for a 
> harddisc for my RiscPC to have this pimple-faced loser try to sell me an 
> EISA expansion card for my Amiga...

I did hear of a case where someone went into PCWorld and was told that 
yes they could use the RAM from their Sinclair Spectrum to upgrade their 
PC.......maybe if it where an original board 5150, but this was in the 
pentium era.

> ...it gets worse. Little jumped up pr*ck then starts getting 
> condescending as I'm not bowing to his superior knowledge, so finally he 
> conceeds that if I wish to use a non-regular setup, I can plug the 
> harddisc into the soundblaster card on my Atari and use it that way. Maybe.

Humm I had a similar experience with some dumbass in Maplins that 
insisted that a D25 to Amphenol-36 printer lead was an obsolete SCSI 
lead, so I told him that no it was a printer lead and that I was an IT 
pro and so knew what I was on about. He then I guess thought he'd be 
clever and insist that it was an old Macintosh SCSI lead, at which point 
  he lost a sale, I let him know that I had a Mac plus at home and no it 
was not a SCSI lead for that.

But then again the other techs that I work with would prolly be lost if 
I told them to install a SCSI system, as all they've ever dealt with is 
ATA/IDE/SATA. I could of course be really crel and plonk an MFM card, 
drive & cable set on one of their desks and ask them to install it....

Cheers.

Phill.

-- 
Phill Harvey-Smith, Programmer, Hardware hacker, and general eccentric !

"You can twist perceptions, but reality won't budge" -- Rush.