12/01/2010

Lost … and found



It's disappeared from practical IT, yet I miss that icon of early Mac and Atari users, those pioneers of usability vs
"An Adresse 1.23444.xxxf…you ist der schwere Ausnahmefehler xmrfb.wrdlbrmbfd.0815 aufgetreten, wouldn't you rather like to kick that PC out the window?"




Source wikimedia.org/commons


Cool Mac or Atari users would just need something like the above to know whats happening: Something's crashed, and usually it wasn't the computer as a whole …
Maybe only a few among us may have experienced a serious 'kernel panic' on a more recent Mac, a gripping, virtually psychedelic visual experience that is privileged for the chosen few who would really manage to overload their system to the brink of total breakdown.

for some comic relief have a look here for the 'online T-shirt' on post Aug 12



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