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.

[Ian Pullen]

You guys should know pommie stuff doesn't leak oil. It just marks it's territory.

[Ian Pullen]

Thanks Tony. Dave, Scotty & myself are still at the Museum but we, like other Govt Departments are checking the purse strings.

We were at Corowa this year, just not in an official capcity. Just gave us more of an opportunity to be social over the rim of a glass.

We'll be there as visitors again next year. Fuses, wire & multi meter in hand.

[Scrivo18]

Hi Ian

Maybe a Guess speaker on the mystical Lucas Electronics might be in order.

It was good to catch up at the swap meet

Tim