It Has Arrived

• 23rd June 2003 at 18:30

I was woken up today with my mum screaming 'It's here!'

It came in a big box:

It was, of course, my Risc PC!

I unpacked it and put it on my desk.

It's so pretty.

It was at this point I realised I needed a monitor for this one (I havent bought a monitor with a computer for years, new computers just go on the old ones, or they're linux machines so they dont need one). So I stole my mum's, I'll get a new monitor later in the week :)

It's so lovely.

So anyway, I plugged it in and turned it on. It booted up in about 16 seconds.

It's so very pretty.

I played with it for a while, then thought it would be a good idea to plug in my network card so I could go on the internet and get some up-to-date programs.

I opened the case.

It's so very lovely.

I've used quite a few computer cases, and I have never come across any that are as easy or pleasing to use as the case of a Risc PC. I am not at all biased. The Risc PC case is kept shut with a pin system. It's fab:

I didnt take any photos of the inside of the case, but it's extremely clean (ie no dangly wires etc). Maybe some photos will follow shortly. But anyway, the network card is actually a podule; it needs to be plugged in just in front of the VRAM and the Kinetic card. But of course, the VRAM sticks up a bit, and the 10Base2 socket on the NIC sticks out a bit, so I couldnt get it to fit around everything. So I had to dismantle the whole computer to get to it. I say that, it took me all of a minute to unplug the Kinetic card, remove the two front pins holding the center section in, and lift it out (with the drives)... the NIC popped in. I put it all back together again, and turn the computer on. I drop to the console and type 'podules'. There is my network card. I type 'modules'. There are the network card modules. I go into a little configure window and set my IP and gateway. I reboot (all of 16 seconds), and it works. But then of course it will. It's Acorn. Everything Acorn just works. PC plug and play has nothing on this :) I am not at all biased.

This must be the 2nd or 3rd best day of my life. Only took 9 years to get this, but it's worth it :p

Anyway, my spoon is too big:

You are spoon guy. You should have planned ahead buddy, or packed a bigger lunch. which rejected character are you?

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