On 24 Aug 2012, at 12:11, Norman Dunbar <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> any one got any tales of annoying little things which in retrospect are
>>> quite charming?
>
> How about debugging DJToolkit way back when, by single stepping through my
> code and making sure everything was doing what it was expected to, and just
> as I was about to get to the stage where I suspected a bug was, the freezer
> started up and hung the whole system.
>
> That was irritating to say the least.
>
>
It was that sort of QL crash (washing machine in my case) that prompted me in
1985 to design Computer Cleaner. It worked so well I started selling it at the
ZX Microfairs and was sucked into the QL trading business. I sold thousands
of the things! That was well before anyone like Belkin was even heard of! Now
Belkin and others sell flashy Chinese made ones that are mainly inferior, but
far far too cheap to even consider competing with. I had very recently a very
pretty looking Belkin one to repair for a friend. It had far fewer and smaller
components than mine did in 1986, and didn't even have inductance. The neutral
lead had broken off!
Tony
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