Snap quiz: desk stuff

[Peter Corlett]

On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 08:31:04PM +0000, David Cantrell wrote:
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> I'd not be surprised if my bloody *fridge* did. When it broke shortly
> after I bought it, the technician who came to fix it just did a firmware
> upgrade.

You want my landlord. The only microcontroller I found in what is laughingly
called a furnished flat was in the electricity meter. All the stuff came
pre-broke, and he's not seen fit to repair or replace any of it.

The level of technology was dragged forwards about four decades when I moved
in.