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Hello, tech support? Yes, I've run out of desk... Yes, DESK... space

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Re: Ah c'mon

My father is 'Pre War' generation(yes, that war), and worked as a boatbuilder,then a hevy machine operator(diggers mostly) his entire life, and never had anything to do with computers until after he retired.

Then he started helping out on a local non-profit radio, putting together music playlists for them.

I gave him my old discarded tower and copied over the rather horrid DataEase DB they used...

One day when I was visiting it had a new CD-burner installed, and he was ripping LPs, using a shareware program to clean up the sound.

He had done it all himself after he found the SW on a CD stuck to a magazine. He found something that he felt 'needed doing' so went and did it.

The fact that the manual for the CD-burner and the manal for the SW were both in English didn't faze him. (He only knows a handful of words in English, and odds are that he got most of those wrong)

These days there's so many computers and accessories in his little 'office' that I'm getting jealous...

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