August 04, 2015
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at
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Back when I was working, when I was a senior engineer, I used to do a lot of interviewing. Coming up with reasonable questions is a pain, and one I used was "What is the most useless error message you've ever seen?"
My own answer was "Syntax error", a common error message from early compilers. Someone did better though: it was an error message from the first PC BIOS: "Keyboard not found. Press F1 to continue."
But I do believe that your picture, if genuine, has topped them all.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Tue Aug 4 21:09:48 2015 (+rSRq)
But that machine had 4K each of ROM and RAM, so they had an excuse. Not so much these days.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wed Aug 5 02:16:13 2015 (PiXy!)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wed Aug 5 02:28:40 2015 (PiXy!)
It does come in handy to still have wired keyboards and mice around. When I was rebuilding Himawari (Avoid Seagate drives) many things, even my BIOS could read my wireless USB Keyboard. Except the screen at the beginning of CHKDSK. Unless I wanted to sit through ANOTHER 8 hours while it failed, I have to have a keyboard I could plug in to kit a key to abort. (Likewise, an early version of the Seagate utility on a bootable CD couldn't read the wireless mouse.)
Posted by: Mauser at Wed Aug 5 05:12:45 2015 (TJ7ih)
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