Like Rory , I grew up with a lame arse PC. I too was bitterly jealous of those amiga owners. With their fancy fandanlged-hand-holding-a-floppy-disk bios, and versions of Marble Madness that looked just like the arcade, they had no idea how lucky they were. But, I'm not so sure that the grey box which evaporated my childhood, (while I'm very fond of it) was actually the height of eighties cool. In fact, the computer I owned was far, far worse than the virtual boy of PCs - something that made those poor betamax owners laugh themselves into hysterical coniptions as to what a loser of a product this thing actually was, and they paid 450 dollars for a flashing digital clock. My dad bought us a genuine, IBM PC-JX. The IBM PC-Jr is widely regarded as one of IBM's dumbest decisions. What very few know, is that after the IBM PC-Jr flopped dismally in the US, IBM was left with a bunch of leftover hardware that nobody wanted. I can hear the meetings now: shimmery dissolve in "Jo...
Thats funny,
ReplyDeleteI saw something similar in a paddock from a plane landing in Melbourne a couple of weeks ago. I reckon it might have been bigger.
Hey I got some modicum of ribald hilarity from it.
Grae
I hope that the "certain student" wasnt me you were mentioning from high school, the only thing I ever wrote was " Leanne Baitup has hairy eyebrows" on the toilet door ( children are cruel).
ReplyDeleteI find your ramblings strangely interesting, may tune in again.
You have way tooooo much time.
Heidi ( from high school)