Stephen Pelc wrote:
>> Subject: [Hampshire] [OT] Friday afternoon time-wasting
>
>> We all have our favourite error messages from various sources, such as
>> "No keyboard detected, press F1 to continue".
>>
>> What about error messages that you haven't seen, but you wish you had
>> seen (or programmed)?
>
> While writing (in DIBOL) a flood warning scheme for a very large
> water company over 25 years ago, we put in a message (triggered
> after the user made the same mistake 10 times in a row) of the
> form:
> Please be nice to me, I'm only a machine.
>
> The first computer I actually bought (Marinchip M9900),
> basically had two MDEX operating system error messages:
> huh?
> eh?
>
And the good old BBC micro would just say
Silly!
if you requested an impossible Basic line renumbering.
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Chris Dennis cgdennis@???
Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK
