The Chairman is flummoxed by gremlins that seem to move through the ether from one computer to another. Perhaps there's a tad of prologue in the past.
My first computer was a 1982 Osborne luggable that weighed 24 pounds. It came with WordStar, dBase and SuperCalc. These were useful programs that fit on 92K floppy discs.
The spell checker may have been an Oxford desk dictionary, but this fine machine was NOT rope-start, as claimed, and you really didn’t have to raise the wick to brighten the 5-inch screen.
I preferred the Osborne to the new IBM PC which had a keyboard made horrid by an enter key no larger than any other. But it at least “Big Blue” on the box made computers acceptable to executives who thought ball-point pens were high-tech.
Errors of the era were as simple as the hardware. I remember someone who used a No. 2 pencil to erase data. Someone else stapled a disc to a memo. My favorite is the guy who filed his discs by using magnets to hold them against a metal cubicle wall.
My early computer years were only a generation or so from the era when exorcism was an accepted business practice. So, Ms. Chairman, I’m suggesting you obtain bell, book and candle and proceed to read the directions. There; now, aren’t I a help?
You had a disk? My first computer was a 1978 TRS-80 from Radio Shack, which used cassettes. And it was a blast to use!
A friend sent me an old programming manual for the NCR 304, an early transistorized computer made in 1959. Two of those computers ran all of Daytons in the 1960's. They ate enormous amounts of power and air-condtioning. Ah, the good old days.