On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, Philip Pemberton wrote:
> Oh, yes. The Kalok Octagon. I hated those things. I lost access to a school
> computer lab for an entire term due to the untimely failure of one of these
> things fitted in an Acorn Archimedes A310. Here's the story:
> I was peacefully sitting at the A310 during my lunch break, headphones
> plugged in, playing Lemmings. Then it happened. The sound stopped. The
> machine went glacial (highly unusual for an Acorn). I took off my headphones
> and I heard this almighty SCREEEEEEECH, followed by "clunk-CLAK...
> clunk-CLAAAAAK... clunk-whirr....". IT tech came through, asked for the
> story. Her response? "These drives don't fail for nothing. You must have hit
> the machine or something". The drive was duly pulled out and replaced. It
> was only 8mnths old. Later that week I was told that I was not to touch any
> computer in the school, period. That lasted for the rest of the term. I left
> at the end of the term anyway. I almost went mad without my daily Lemmings
> fix :-(
> If there's one person/team I want to attack with a LART, it's the one who
> designed the Kalok Octagon...
The first person I would want to LART is the bitch that would kick me off
the computers for the rest of the term ;)
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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