Date: Sat, 9 Oct 93 16:48:14 -0400 To: cplay@MIT.EDU, sipb@MIT.EDU Subject: [alt.humor.best-of-usenet] [alt.folklore.computers] How to explain difference of RAM/HD to computer illiterates Perhaps we should start keeping a few bunches of bananas in our respective offices. (I think people might get upset if we started using the 2x4 :-) Marc ------- Start of forwarded message ------- Newsgroups: alt.humor.best-of-usenet From: Christopher Neufeld Subject: [alt.folklore.computers] How to explain difference of RAM/HD to computer illiterates Followup-To: alt.humor.best-of-usenet.d Organization: CAT-TALK Conferencing System Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1993 22:47:13 GMT Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers From: jsbell@acs.ucalgary.ca (Joshua Bell) Subject: Re: How to explain difference of RAM/HD to computer illiterates? Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1993 23:10:58 GMT In article <21SEP199315234740@elroy.uh.edu>, B.J. Guillot wrote: >But I always get a puzzled look from their face. "It still sounds like >the same thing." > >Can somebody give me a good statement to use so I can prove to them that >RAM and HD storage are two different things without confusing them too >much? An effective demonstration comes to mind. Give them two telephone numbers to remember. Tell them to write one down, and keep the other one in memory. Then beat them unconscious with a convenient 2x4 no more than 30 seconds after they're ready. When they recover in hospital, ask them what the two numbers were. You gave the simplest explanation I can think of; anything in RAM goes bye-bye when the computer is turned of, anything on the HD gets saved. If they can't clue in to that, after several minutes of repeating the explanation with the emphisis on different words each time, buy them a banana and tell them to take a break and evolve. Joshua -- -- alt.humor.best-of-usenet -- -- Funniest postings from USENET, altnet, and the worlds beyond -- -- Moderator's address: best@polaris.async.vt.edu -- ------- End of forwarded message -------