Unnervingly vague error messages from 1976
by Rob Beschizza from on (#30GCG)
Marcin Wichary posted "an abridged list" of vague and therefore terrifying error messages from a 40-year-old word processor.
Don't you just hate it when very bad footnote distribution failures happen?
This all has me looking forward to "error messages generated by a recurrent neural network," or a science fiction thriller where the crew must contend with an increasingly psychotic word processor.
"Detachment successful"
What? Computer, what the hell does deta-
"Detachment successful"