Computers you would like to shoot.

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You can pick any from any era but only one!

Which make / model would you like to see trembling in your gun scope / flame thrower / rpg.

Or your weapon of choice.

My first choice would be... Erm

Any Amiga or pc equiped with a scsi hard drive!!

There I said it!

- right no more posts from me now -
 
Before Replay, my list would have been long and distinguished. Now, I am much more tolerant.
But even before replay I would have strapped them to the post, tied the blindfold, put the cigarette to their lips and taken aim before giving them a last second reprieve, probably.
 
Any computer that begins with or has on it's label/case somewhere either of the following 2 words ...

Apple

Mac
 
PowerMac, circa mid-90s.

I'll remove a floppy when I bl00dy well want to!
 
mike_cc said:
I'll remove a floppy when I bl00dy well want to!
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I thought all Mac's had the same electric ejection system?

For me it has to be the Amstrad PCW series. It was a glorified typewrighter and not to mention it's so fecking boring not only to look at but to use and the space it takes up is a joke thanks to it's in-built monitor. Perfect waste of a 5.1/4, 3.5 and 3" disk drives.
 
I actually had one of those and it was very much a typewriter. A pcw8256. I remember hauling it into the electronics bin at a scrap yard about 5 years ago, and I felt nothing.
I didn't realise until fairly recently, that there had been a quite passable version of Head over Heels released, alongside a couple of other titles that it would have been interesting to see.
I still have no regrets though.
 
I kind of like them now for some retro-historical reasons, but..

The original Mac with a single floppy drive.

My roommate in college had one (I'm pretty sure it was over $2k at the time) and he couldn't afford the external floppy.
(Now that I think about it, it was a Mac 512k, but still only the internal floppy)

So, System 4 I believe with 1 floppy trying to do ANYTHING..
EJECT.. swap disk .. EJECT.. swap disk..EJECT.. swap disk..EJECT.. swap disk..EJECT.. swap disk..EJECT.. swap disk..EJECT.. swap disk..EJECT.. swap disk..EJECT.. swap disk..EJECT.. swap disk..EJECT.. swap disk..EJECT.. swap disk..EJECT.. swap disk..EJECT.. swap disk..

I still can't believe that computer caught on!! :-)
(I also can't believe the floppy eject motor didn't die.. Well built that..)

To be fair, adding a floppy made a HUGE difference, but with my Amiga 500 without an external floppy, I just RESIDENT'd a few programs and was good to go.
Well, not totally, but it was MILES better than the Mac with 1 floppy...

desiv
 
A timely question! my Amiga A1200. I just installed Amigasys 4 AGA and didn't like it, so went to uninstall and filemaster threw it's legs in the air. I'll have to re-install everything OS3.9, mediator and picasso etc etc.

Think it's time to knock this hobby on the head. :sad:
 
r0jaws said:
I actually had one of those and it was very much a typewriter. A pcw8256. I remember hauling it into the electronics bin at a scrap yard about 5 years ago, and I felt nothing.
I didn't realise until fairly recently, that there had been a quite passable version of Head over Heels released, alongside a couple of other titles that it would have been interesting to see.
I still have no regrets though.
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Games are really hard to find for them though. I had a PCW 9512 from the early 90's. What i'd love to know is why the hell one of these would need half a meg of RAM for whats basically word processing and spreadsheets?! I hastely got rid of mine, slight shame since some had gone to the effort of fitting a 3.5" floppy drive to it. Still totoally useless to me since it was a different format.
 
A computer which name starts with an "A" but the logo was an stylized /|\ (it is the road from Enduro?). They must get stopped after the 2600 console and the 8bit line.

Anything 16/32 bit are a deserved target for nuclear bombs.
 
Cheap and crappy peecees. It's always been possible to buy decent manufacturer PC hardware, but there are so many cheap and nasty motherboards out there that are unreliable as hell. They all need shot!
 
Mine would be any laptop, I've ever owned or had to use for work. They seem to work fine for a month or two, then start to fall apart. I HATE THEM!
 
I'd say the ST's. My dream is to find a donor machine and have it launched to trajectory with a few D-12 rocket motors, while it's working and then up the video at youtube.. :cool:
 
I'd like to shoot any server that has Citrix running on it. POS. :dry:

Now that I think about it. Most HP laptops aswell. El cheapo Dell Inspiron laptops should be shot also.

Anything with windows xp on it in a corporate environment in this day and age.
(Home use xp is fine, but companies I'm working with atm haven't even bothered with SP3 yet, updated IE etc. WTF)
 
Gouldin said:
(Home use xp is fine, but companies I'm working with atm haven't even bothered with SP3 yet, updated IE etc. WTF)
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The main reason for this is that comapnies spends loads on a system that works. Adding stuff to it and/or updating it can risk the whole setup to fall apart which could cost a company serious money or worse, the comapany itself depending how dependent they are on it.
 
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