Don’t you hate hard drive crashes? I do. I’m back.
Many moons ago I had an old 486 which ran in an unusually humid environment for months before finally completely failing. (Drive c: not found.)
One night, a couple of months later, when the humidity problem had been corrected, my Uncle Sydney was visiting, and I half-heartedly turned the thing on, just to see it fail to boot again. (Masochist.)
It didn’t, and Uncle Sydney and I were treated to a thunderous exclaimation of “Beware, I Live!” because in those precambrian days the wisdom that an OS should be seen and not heard had not yet come to me, and my start-up sound was a sample from the eighties arcade game Sinistar. I’d forgotten all about it, and Uncle Sydney and I were very much astonished.
First thing I thought of when I saw the thread title.
Man, someone got a Sinistar quote. I love this board. And oddly, I had a C drive failure, too. Though this one was different. I just bought a new hard drive and it failed utterly like four days later. I just had time to think “Huh, better run CHKDSK, it’s making some funny noises”.
If I can ever find it, I want my startup sound to be Chairman Kaga saying “I summon the Iron Chefs” and that dramatic music…
Run! coward…
Run! Run! Run!
Blast! Most of the Sinistar quotes are already taken.
But, I can still post
“I hunger!”
and
“Riwahaagh!”
That last one is very hard to spell. A simple ‘Rah!’ completely fails to convey the marvelous tremulo effect.
How about “Beware, Coward!”