Corowa 2010 - Year of the Jeep

[Douglas Greville]

One day I was asked to investigate what was wrong with a computer, this was back in the 286/386 days. The brand "Amstrad" was new to me and the female owner was very nervous about anything I did to it.
When the usual DOS commands wouldn't work with an operating system that claimed to be DOS 3.3, I said I did not understand what was going on.
She said "oh, you've got to use Amstrad commands and pulled out a book
an inch thick!!!
After studying this for a while, I suggested she take the thing back to the
bloke she had bought it off and get him to untangle it.

When I got home, I phoned a bloke who was very into computers (pre-internet days) and asked him what the heck this Amstrad thing was supposed to be, the answer was "The Poms attempt at knocking off an IBM compatible".

Within a year or 2 Amstrad had gone bust and the following joke did the rounds:
Question: "Why did the Poms get out of making computers?"
Answer: "Because they could never figure out a way to make them leak oil!"

So, although they didn't leak oil, the electricity did get confused inside them, perhaps Lucas had a hand in their design?

I own a Ferret - it leaks oil. Everything is as it should be.