"Shut her down Scotty, she's sucking mud again!" - 'bug-check' message in TRS-Xenix on the Model 16

"That must be uh... That must be why we're not shipping Windows 98 yet." - Bill Gates when Windows 98 crashed during a presentation on the news

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1PwrHVOYCQ

"Remember: Turn your computer off before midnight on 12/31/99" - BestBuy sticker

bjwil1991 wrote:

"Remember: Turn your computer off before midnight on 12/31/99" - BestBuy sticker

Oops. I've had Half-Life running when the millenium set in

"WAIT........." - Late 1980s AMIBIOS.

"Reticulating splines"
Sim City 2000 (for starters)

"Jim shakes his head and says..." - Police Quest II: The Vengeance (when you done messed up, A-A-ron!)

“Where do you want to go today” - Microsoft

Standard Def Steve wrote:

How you gonna do it? You're gonna PS/2 it!
-IBM

The solution is IBM, the solution is IBM...

"Have you tried turning it off and on again?"

The IT Crowd and anyone who has ever done any sort of tech support.

"Dell PCs use Intel Pentium 4 Processors" - Dell TV adverts

"We invite comparison" -- Tandy/Radio Shack

"Computing without limits" - Kingston Technology Corporation

"Never touch a running system." (aka "Never change a running system.")

"It is Safe to turn off your computer"

Microsoft Windows

"Our System Has been Shocked! But don't forget to salt the fries!"
System Shock.

"Keyboard not found, press F1 to continue".

and the evergreen classic:

"Error".

Two Windows error messages (the first one did sort of make sense, if you took it to be asking you to plug in a keyboard, and then press F1 to continue booting Windows), but the second message, which could apply to various programs, wasn't exactly useful, since "Error" was the entire text of the error box. Yes, really easy to diagnose what caused that error, thanks Microsoft.

It's like when you try to delete a file, and Windows tells you that it can't delete the file as it's currently in use, and advises you to close down any program that might be using that file and try (to delete the file) again. You know, when it would be fifteen thousand times more useful if Windows told you what program was using the file, but given that Microsoft don't even like adding in stuff that users have wanted for years, like a Windows function for printing a folder's contents (with user defined specifications), or being able to copy and paste the text from an error box, perhaps it's not surprising that Windows is unwilling to share any information with you that might help you solve the problem.

"John Romero's about to make you his bitch. Suck it down."

/mic-drop

Kerr Avon wrote:

... but the second message, which could apply to various programs, wasn't exactly useful, since "Error" was the entire text of the error box. Yes, really easy to diagnose what caused that error, thanks Microsoft.

True to form, Win10's setup routine can sometimes show a very similar message.

Kerr Avon wrote:

"Keyboard not found, press F1 to continue".

and the evergreen classic:

"Error".

Yeah, How are you suppose to press F1 if keyboard is not connected ?

"Welcome to the world of friendly computing" -Commodore