These aren't the same,
...but they're based around stupid people so what the hell.

When we first got this computer (1997/8?) the bloke at TIME Computers was ranting and raving about how great the PcTV card was and after a while mentioned that it could record. We asked him how much it could record and what the quality would be like. He told us that we could easily fit a couple episodes of Eastenders onto a floppy disk and that the quality could greatly exceed that of your average TV screen...

We took the computer back many times during the ... however many years we owned it without upgrading it and had to run multiple "option 7"s (wipe all folders referenced to in the registry and start again - still not convinced it did anything since it seemed to be able to reinstall Windows95 from one floppy disk). One time we took it in after the hard drive had totally buggered itself and was refusing to do anything. We got it back after about 7 weeks, drove the bastard back home from Slough, set it all up and turned it on. All looked promising until suddenly, in large ASCII-art styled letters we saw "BURN". We didn't know what the hell it was, but it didn't seem to let us exit it so we went on with the program. It basically was a big, scary, beefed up version of ScanDisk which went on for about a day or so then came to the conclusion that the hard disk had a major central fault and the computer would have to be reburnt. Imagining our computer, followed by our house, going up in a towering inferno we unplugged the thing and carted it back off to Slough. Turned out the fuckwits had loaded one of their diagnostic prgrams, run it and done bugger all about it. Someone had obviously just gone "Oi oi, what's this computer doing sitting about here, eh? It's got a name on it... better get it back to the owners, eh?" and told us it was all fixed. So we got it back again after a while and all was fine. Until it bust itself again a month or so later.
(qdamik, Mon 29 Dec 2003, 20:06, Reply)