Posted on 04/21/2015 3:34:59 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey
A Colorado man who has been fighting with his computer for the last several months unloaded a volley of shots into his Dell tormentor, resulting in the death of the computer and his arrest for discharging a firearm, cops report.
When asked about the shooting, Hinch told TSG, I just had it, adding that he tired of the balky computers blue screen of death. Hinch said that he whacked the computer with a 9mm Hi-Point pistol recently purchased from a Craigslist seller. The gun was seized by police, who left the computer behind.
The late Dell XPS 410 model, seen in the above police evidence photo, is survived by a monitor and a keyboard.
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I'm still convinced that the CRT is the biggest advancement in programmer productivity in history, even though there are obviously many other developments that in toto add up to be more important. The languages, methodology and so forth and the advances in hardware; but those have been a long evolution.
were it not for the Cathode Ray Tube...Id never have bought that first computer..
Hinch just found a new way to break a Window. You are right, this thread is loaded with puns.
The Elvis remote. It’s not just for TVs anymore.
There but for the grace of G-d...
Quite the contrary. It was a very well-behaved machine most of the time. It even had micrometer screws to position the paper relative to the print chain. That allowed perfect registration with pre-printed forms. Machines of yesteryear were very heavy duty and well made. It is the flimsy plastic stuff that gives you grief.
Thank you for the education. I never ran into a unit like that.
Drop the computer from a high roof ping!
college programming class flashback pic!
My hour with the punch card machine was 3:00am -4:00am -
there was a lottery for time slots so everyone had a turn
to “write” their lines of code on those f#%king punch cards.
One mistake and you had to throw the card away and start over. FUN TIMES, FUN TIMES..
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