Bertha
Squish probably had a great time smashing Bertha to bits. Squish has a bit of Tank Girl in her… but in an upright, Christian punk sort of way.
Squish probably had a great time smashing Bertha to bits. Squish has a bit of Tank Girl in her… but in an upright, Christian punk sort of way.
Ah, yes . . . ‘Upgrading’ Transferring files, losing programs that don’t have a ‘current version.’ I remember when I ‘lost’ dbase IV, and TKSolver! I’ve had more WordProcessing Formats than I can remember.. Nevermind the files that are now unreadable because they are on Cassette Tape, 8″ Floppy Disc, 5-1/4″ Floppy, 3-1/2″ Floppy . . .
Aaaargh!
Wait until Betsy goes HAL 9000 on him…
LA,
One word “LINUX”.
Attempting to destroy a computer that has frustrated you endlessly will only lead to… more frustration. The fact is that even the cheapies are built pretty solid. Oh, you’ll crack, splinter and bend it a bit, but not much else.
So unless you’ve a five story building to heave it from, just take it to the proper recycling location and be done with it. Even better, donate it to a “second life” computer organization. Even busted ones will be accepted by some since they train people how to repair them. (Kind of like a cadaver donation to a medical college.)
Leo…. Jazz drive… Zip drive, inkadinka-doo… floppies, cd’s… passé… EW!
Dada… Betsy (Great timing on this comic, eh? Betsy Streeter?) is FUN to the core…
Beetles… word!
Pete… She coulda put it in the drink (Squish lives on a boat…) but that’s less satisfying than “SMASHING IT WITH A HAMMER!” … like a sledge.
But donating might have worked.
Is there something wrong with me that I don’t name inanimate objects?
I… never kill a computer – because of changes in OS there are programs that just won’t run on a newer machine.
And I have never had my girlfriend threaten any of them with a hammer….
My current machine is named Grympenmere (archaic spelling of Grimpen Mire -an area of the Dartmoor).
The Auld Grump
Whoops – a FICTIONAL part of the Dartmoor – near Baskerville Hall…. (As it suddenly occurs to me that others might not be as influenced by Holmes….)
My next most recent machine is named Moriarty….
The Auld Grump
Actually I STILL have the ZIP Drive, so THOSE files I can get to!
It’s the stuff I wrote on my TRS-80 Model 100 and than saved to cassette, or on my Model 4 in Scripsit and then saved on the old 5-1/4″ Floppys, that I can’t get access to.
Oh well, most of it was rejected ‘back then,’ no reason to think that anybody’ll be interested once I’m dead.
Grump… I tend to name some things… like cars. I drive “Junie B.” but I didn’t name her. I drove the Toyota “Beast” before… best darn truck ever! I didn’t name this PowerBook that I’m working from…
I like your namings… Baskerville Hall sounds interesting.
Leo… Wow! You can still Zip, eh? oh, wily technology… It’s amazing how far we’ve come.
I remember how upset I was when my previous laptop died nearly 10 years ago when the on/off switch stopped working. My friend who is a certified computer tech told me that anything less then a new motherboard (which I didn’t have cash for) wasn’t going to fix the problem. It was about 4-5 years later I was able to get a new laptop.
My Asus Pocket PC a few years ago started to fail also, and I bought a $70 Coby (company now defunct) 7″ Kyros tablet.
Heh, and in the world of coincidences… I found the Dave Goulder song Big Bertha on YouTube – a song that I had given up on ever finding again.
Big Bertha was a locomotive on the Lickey. Very big, very slow, very powerful. The only one of her kind, first and last of her line. So perhaps where Rye Guy got the name….
Bertha pushed other locomotives up a very steep grade on the Two Mile Line.
Be warned – the song is both sentimental and cheerful…. http://youtu.be/u7c2X3x7aoI
Yeah, going through the railroad song thing again….
The Auld Grump – ten big wheels to roll her along, just a working girl on the Lickey.
Bertha’s the name,
In the hall of fame,
She was the only one of her kind,
First and last of her line….
Sentimental Auld Grump is amusing Auld Grump! Thanks for the song, haven’t heard it in forever and forgot all about it!
This is one reason that I still use film cameras. Even a CD that’s supposed to be good for 100 years (And just how can they know?) will be worthless if you can’t find a player.
I’ve had CDs go bad after less than a year.
Some professionals are going back to film, also. When a customer wants another disc of their wedding from five years ago, well, you’d better hope that your original is still readable.
My negatives from my high school days are still printable and/or scanable.