13 Dec
2001
13 Dec
'01
3:13 a.m.
The manual of the motherboard for the first PC I built had a statement to the
following effect on the second page:
"This manual has been carefully for errors to make sure correct."
Christopher Smith said:
- Dan Wright
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From: Dave McGuire [mailto:mcguire@neurotica.com]
I am reminded of my favorite piece of broken
english, found in a
Taiwanese PeeCee motherboard manual many years ago:
"If use 387 coprocessor, the clocked by
CPU clock."
No, I made no typos there. :-)
I haven't had so much (documented) cheap imported hardware, but my favorite
is from a sound board:
"We make 100% sure that this is caused by a M/B bios bug. Please to update
the bios of the mainboard with the M/B manufacturer."
I was also amused once to see somebody who didn't speak English very well
(nor, it appears, know what SCSI stands for) mark some SCSI controllers with
a sign that said "SCASI."
Regards,
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL
/usr/bin/perl -e '
print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl
Hacker.")."\x08!\n");
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