Computer Math Jokes

Yeah, I'm not going to get a lot of new readers with a title like that. But anyway.

I was thinking about an old joke:

There are 10 kinds of people: those who understand binary and those who don't.

...and a number of examples of number-formatting trivia came to mind.

Don't say you weren't warned...

The Worst Computer Of All Time

I've slagged a few computers here for being knock-offs or badly designed -- and I got called out by a commenter on that last one, who basically said "hey, I used one and it wasn't that terrible." And I can't disagree with the guy. Our old cadaver powered up dutifully, dead hard drive notwithstanding, and I don't doubt it would run reliably for another quarter-century.

On the other hand, there have been lots of computers sold with much more serious problems -- laptops with exploding batteries, untrustworthy hard drives, defective motherboard capacitors, computers that had to be dropped periodically, and awful quality drivers, not to mention this infamous scam.

All of this makes the maligned Zenith Eazy PC look pretty good. But this got me thinking: what is the worst computer of all time? Everyone loves a good train wreck -- so if you disagree, please submit your own. But my money is on the IBM PCJr.

Cropped from Marcin Wichary's photo (Some Rights Reserved)

Advertising Fantasy vs. Reality

The Fantasy:

If you buy our laptop (and it would be nice if you bought our camera too), you will be transformed into a glamourous, Photoshop-perfect blonde with an exciting career that allows for copious time spent lounging on the white sands of a seaside paradise in revealing clothing.

Fate can be unkind to technology

Anyone else remember this late '90s commercial?

Laptop Station Humour

For the discerning, literate, sympathetic thief:

Building ThinkStations

We had a fleet of ThinkStations arriving into build fodder sometime last week and a number of them were built and ready for testing when I arrived at Free Geek today.

Thanks to this week's builders, they were a pleasure to give a final once-over, and a number of them went to the store for sale today. Good work, folks!

I don't know if anyone else noticed, but they have angry robot faces on the back.