Now I'm really confused. Mind you, the URL does mention UK, and the guys in CompUSA seemed to agree that it had ended. Except the one salesman that tried to convince me otherwise of course.

Anyway, it's academic now. I've finally agreed to buy the student's home-build with all the kit for $300. Gets me some of the way to modernity*.

He's also trying to sell his car to get back to slightly cooler weather...in Finland! It was 85f here today, and it's mid-winter, so I hope he packs fluffy underwear.

*Despite the word being chosen in a lighthearted vein, I thought I'd just check the definition.

It's strange that when I look things up, I find answers like this. :uhoh:

A year ago today I was on Contract in southern Finland. At the beginning of an early shift it was -20 and the lowest it went was -30. But next to no wind compared to scotty land. Felt warmer than Aberdeen on a winters day which I put down to the dry air and lack of wind.

SD

Over here, you were immune to the Curse of Wangaratta. Around the time that we were getting away from 3270s, some government incentive had inspired It's Better Manually to manufacture in the aforementioned place - whose name is as synonymous with puter excellence as the Bay Area. The power supplies, IIRC, were sourced from Sun Moon Wong - Korean for Lucas. I'll leave the rest to your imagination.

They were also pushing Token Ring, dismissing Ethernet as cowboyware. How I laughed, spending two futile weeks in KL trying to get something to run because of a dud adapter.

They are due credit for the modular, open architecture they endowed on the PC; their beautiful, iconic 'clicky' keyboard; their S/36s and 3090s, and DB2. But every time I see an IBM PC I'm a little sick in my mouth.

That said, my work IBM laptop with a Ubuntu flash boot drive instead of its native XP is transformed from Jade Goody into Kathryn Jenkins.

SO