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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 computer’s “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.
(Excerpt) Read more at thesmokinggun.com ...
Back when I had a television I was very often tempted to shoot it...
Mac System software runs as I understand it, on a Linux “core” sort of deal.
I remember this huge card sorting machine which was of course,,,in another part of the buikding as it didnt require the cold environment of “the computer room:”
After 35 years in IT....Ive let the magic smoke out of a few boxes ...you just dont let them see you do it
that in this day and age would be seen...in the minds of some people...particular those in California .as an environmental hate crime ...
I bought my very first computer...20 years ago.
Previously my contacts were somewhat peripheral to jobs I had at one time and another.
I used not to mind printers too much or even supporting them but in the past few years, just about every call is about a printer failing at my facility.
HP, Zebras, and some other makes. None of them hardly built good any more.
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The Blue Screen of DANG!
such memories THAT brings back!!
the room...where the beast I used ti use was considerably less well lit so this is actually the best veiw I have ever HAD of a card sorter!!
I remember dropping a couple of boxes of punch cards in my time...
the system alos used a retail tag reading machine...which had tiny holes punched into them.
the data from the holes was read and figured into the system in a way thats still a total mystery to me.
I remember being younger and throwing pillows at my roommate's TV when some liberal said something disgusting.
Indeed.
Im thinking he may have taken this personally!!
The Agile Terminal® had a paper tape punch attachment. But by the time ordinary grunts like me got 110 Baud typewriter terminal all my storage was on tape.
Mag tape, that is.
“Printers are evil incarnate.”
AMEN! I just junked one that refused to print and with the help of an expert got a new different one, a Brother. It refuses to take a password without which it won’t work. It even refuses to accept the password it suggests itself.
I finally found a large photo of a similar tag!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/Price_tag_with_punched_coding.agr.jpg
Excellent
[They always blame the monitor. It’s just wrong, I tell you.]
Yeah, talk about killing the messenger.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimball_tag
They kinda describe how it was physically read.
Despite what the article says the holes definitely do not describe any kind of Hollerith compatible code as far as I can tell, even if you throw some junk bits in for error control and card orientation.
So I'm going to guess the encoding is strictly proprietary despite the fact that the article says the machine translated holes to Hollerith. There are just too damn many holes punched in that sample tag in any given column to be BCD-H.
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