Never trust a computer you can't lift

Today marks the 25th anniversary of the launch of the first Mac computer. Someone has restored a video of Steve Jobs introducing the machine, and given the progress of the last 25 years, it’s amusing to hear the audience going ballistic over a screen showing a low-res game of 3D chess and other rather basic features. The primitive beast even manages to croak a sentence in a Steven Hawking voice, proclaiming “never trust a computer you can’t lift”, hardly a differentiating factor nowadays.

To celebrate the occasion, the only piece of Microsoft hardware I have in the house, an Xbox 360, decides to throw a sulk over my Mac ownership by displaying the “red ring of death”. A worrying percentage of Xboxes stop working, and just sit there with flashing red lights on the front of the box, mine has now joined the statistics. In technical terms, this means my Xbox is fucked, and I will have to send it back to Bangkok where boys with more screwdrivers than sense will attempt to fix it. I suspect an unhappy and expensive outcome.

Never trust a computer you can’t lift. Or an Xbox 360.

Comments 🔗

2009-01-25 | The Ghost says

I have wanted an xbox 360 for a long time (I still have my version 1.1 xbox) and everytime I think hard about it, i read about the red ring of death.

I should direct your attention to the following from Ed in Pattaya.

http://pattayarag.blogspot.com/2008/12/xbox-360-red-ring-of-death.html

2009-01-25 | Spike says

Thanks. Depressing reading.

2010-04-09 | Alfonso Kottsick says

It is unbelievable! now there is a excellent way to fix your 360 RROD I just found out yesterday. Check my link posted. If it does not work it probably means you have removed it because I am a spammer. Well, fuck me sideways.