Old School Tech Jokes

[Chieftess]

Yes - these are jokes/witty humor related to the old DOS days. (generally back in the 80's). Feel free to post.

The last things any computer user wants to see:

1. Please insert boot disk in drive A:

2. OS Not Found! (a variant on the above)

3. ~~~+++ NO CARRIER

4. The BSOD.

5. Format Drive C:\> ?

 

[scorch]

your weird....

 

[Globber]

no, the last thing they want to see, is worse than a no OS message, it's the Windows ME splash screen..... AHHHHHHHHH

worse yet, a Mac splash screen

 

[Perfection]

6. C:/Civilization/civilization.exe not found

 

[newfangle]

7. Press any key.
8. Insert disk labeled "2".
9.Bad command or file name (what in the holiest of hell does "bad" mean???)
10. "Send error report?" [to Microsoft]

 

[Perfection]

11. keyboard not detected

 

[Aphex_Twin]

12. Monitor not detected.

 

[scorch]

ahhh, i get the drift of things.

13. Fatal error:
14. This program has performed and illegal operation and will be shutdown. [repeat 5 times]
15. *popup* VIRUS DETECTED!

 

[ainwood]

16.) XXXXX has caused a General Protection Fault in module YYYYY. The program will now be closed.



That used to be MY favorite at Uni, where I routinely lost hours of work....

 

[col]

My favourite error messages

"This error does not have an error code"

"This is an unexpected error"

 

[Perfection]

win.exe cannot be deleted

 

[Dynamic Cow]

"error message error: the wrong error message was displayed."

 

[Lt. 'Killer' M.]

"Fatal error - save in Dr. Norton?"

whatever you did, the next was

"Dr. norton is unable to open *§)&$("./&% to save to. Cancel?"

"Yes" ---------- "End"

 

[handyandy]

mouse not found please click on ok!