The new guy tried to run a program from a floppy disk

We hired a young guy last month who brought in a box of old floppy disks from his grandpa's shop. He was dead serious, asking if our old Haas had a drive for them. I had to explain that we haven't used those since before he was born, and our machine doesn't even have a USB port, just a network cable. Anyone else run into someone with a wild gap in tech knowledge like that?

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johnson.jason1mo ago

That's a classic one right there. We had a summer kid try to load a program from a cassette tape once, no joke. Ended up just sitting him down with the control and walking him through a simple transfer over the network. Took a minute for it to click, but he got there. Some of these old ways are just ghosts to them now.

emery_young1316d ago

Johnson.Jason you really hit on something there. I had a similar thing with my nephew who wanted to run some old DOS games on his new laptop. Ended up showing him how to set up a virtual machine and he was SO confused at first. But once he saw the command line come up and actually got a game running, his eyes lit up. Took maybe an hour but now he messes with it on his own time. Its just wild how something that was second nature to us is like a foreign language now.

blake6911mo ago

That "ghosts to them" line hits hard. I feel for the kid trying to use his grandpa's stuff, that's actually kind of sweet in a lost cause way. The tech jump is just too big now, there's no frame of reference. We're basically museum curators showing off ancient history to them.