___ Oddest thing you've heard a case with components called? ___

[Blain]

The oddest thing I've heard someone call a case with components is...
"Hard drive" by one person and "CPU" by another. :laugh:

Communication is hard enough with non-technical types.
I'm used to the case with components being called "The box" or "The tower", but "hard drive" and "CPU" really caught me off guard.

 

[bluestrobe]

Complete computers were called CPU's back in the day. I actually find it normal when someone calls a computer a CPU but the hard drive term got me.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

"the box part of the computer".

Vice the pretty one (monitor) I guess.

 

[Roguestar]

Originally posted by: Blain
The oddest thing I've heard someone call a case with components is...
"Hard drive" by one person and "CPU" by another. :laugh:

Communication is hard enough with non-technical types.
I'm used to the case with components being called "The box" or "The tower", but "hard drive" and "CPU" really caught me off guard.

Yup, those two are the ones I hear a lot when dealing with users in work. "Base unit" is fine by me but "hard drive" kind of annoys me. I get a lot of people trying to use a monitor and keyboard plugged into a docking station at someone else's desk when the laptop user is out and wondering why it won't work.

 

[CDC Mail Guy]

I heard my boss say hard drive the other day, and for some reason it really bothered me. Lol, don't know why, but I didn't correct him.

 

[lxskllr]

In a similar vein...I've had people refer to the process of installing software as "downloading" I find that highly confusing when trying to figure out what they're talking about.

 

[Blain]

Originally posted by: Roguestar
I get a lot of people trying to use a monitor and keyboard plugged into a docking station at someone else's desk when the laptop user is out and wondering why it won't work.

How long do they try and figure it out on their own? :shocked:

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

I regularly called my computer "my machine". Although I would be hard pressed to call my laptop that though. The damn thing was 120+ pounds though. So I figured "my machine" was quite accurate.

 

[Roguestar]

Originally posted by: Blain

Originally posted by: Roguestar
I get a lot of people trying to use a monitor and keyboard plugged into a docking station at someone else's desk when the laptop user is out and wondering why it won't work.

How long do they try and figure it out on their own? :shocked:

Well, for example one person had phoned the helpdesk who logged the call and passed it around to us poor monkeys in tech support; she said she had left her laptop at home but wanted to use the computer that was on her desk and didn't know why it wasn't working. Turns out she was trying to use the keyboard and mouse with her laptop docking station, and was wondering what was wrong that the monitor was on and nothing was on the screen...

I think she was a bit miffed when I told her she'd need to go home and get her laptop if she actually wanted to do work on it (god forbid you bring it to work with you, not like it's portable or anything....).

Thing is, that isn't even one of the worse stories I could tell you . I really have some patience .

 

[Aikouka]

Originally posted by: lxskllr
In a similar vein...I've had people refer to the process of installing software as "downloading" I find that highly confusing when trying to figure out what they're talking about.

Haha, I know what you mean! I'll give someone a piece of software on a CD and they'll be like "So I just download this onto my hard drive" and I say, "No, just run it off the CD" and they'll retort, "Yeah, and download it onto my hard drive." It just perpetuates until I say, "Yeah, whatever, do that."

 

[bluestrobe]

Originally posted by: lxskllr
In a similar vein...I've had people refer to the process of installing software as "downloading" I find that highly confusing when trying to figure out what they're talking about.

Forgot about that one. I hear that a lot too.

 

[Hyperlite]

Originally posted by: bluestrobe

Originally posted by: lxskllr
In a similar vein...I've had people refer to the process of installing software as "downloading" I find that highly confusing when trying to figure out what they're talking about.

Forgot about that one. I hear that a lot too.

yeah me too

 

[Brian48]

My wife used to call my monitor the CPU

 

[jimbofoxman]

I hear Hard drive a lot.

My best moment in my admin days was having the GM of our plant having a hissy fit on the PA paging me before it was even time for me to be there. He couldn't get his important meeting notes to print. Mr Dumba$$ forgot to turn on the printer back on. So much for his big fancy diploma on the wall. Made me feel so good.

 

[uallas5]

"The Little Box". From a tech support call I had with a 55 yr old medical secretary. The "Big Box" is, of course, the monitor.

Oh and I get a lot of people calling it a "modem", as well.

 

[w00t]

CPU is used a lot generally by people who don't know much about computers or they think they do

tower and box sounds dumb to me I call it "the computer"

I call the visual part the display or monitor than if you want to get more exact CRT or LCD.

seems better to me :-D

Originally posted by: lxskllr
In a similar vein...I've had people refer to the process of installing software as "downloading" I find that highly confusing when trying to figure out what they're talking about.

I hear this one all the time

 

[trOver]

my mom usuall calls the monitor the "computer" in general. I however refer to the monitor as the monitor, and the box or thing that people call "harddrive" or "cpu", i just call it "my pc"

 

[Bob Anderson]

I call my monitor the 'LCD' or just the 'monitor'.

I call my 'tower' just that or the 'machine' or the 'computer'. I used to use the term 'desktop' but that is incorrect, since it is not on my desk, and it is a vertical tower, not a horizontal one.

I call my 'notebook' just that. I never liked the term 'laptop', and Toshiba only uses the term 'notebook' in my user manual. I've never operated my notebook on my lap. I bought it as a so-called 'desktop replacement', which means it was to replace a CRT and tower.

Years ago, early 90's, people often referred to their computer as the 'cpu'.

-Bob

 

[Rubycon]

Roller

 

[LiquidSun]

modem

 

[Sforsyth]

CPU is the one I hear alot but I'm in Canada eh !

 

[Maximilian]

Originally posted by: Blain
The oddest thing I've heard someone call a case with components is...
"Hard drive" by one person and "CPU" by another. :laugh:

Communication is hard enough with non-technical types.
I'm used to the case with components being called "The box" or "The tower", but "hard drive" and "CPU" really caught me off guard.

I used to call my case a "hard drive"

I read in PC's for dummies 1st edition "the bigger your hard drive the better!!" So i measured my case and i was satisfied with the size of it When i got my pII rig to replace this 486 sx i measured i got them and put them alongside eachother. Since the 486 was bigger i was convinced it was better. Didnt start to use the pII for some weeks after that.

 

[lilming]

ive heard modem before too or "the box".

 

[Madwand1]

My 4-year old knows which part is the "monitor", which part is the "computer", and the "keyboard", and "mouse", etc. (and how to launch IE and get to the favorites menu, etc.) So I figure that if you've dealing with someone who's been working with computers for a few years already, it's OK to give them a lesson on basic terminology.

 

[WOLVERINE281]

I've heard CPU misused before.

I find it hillarious, though, when my sister hits her monitor in an attempt to punish the computer.