Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Must be a really old model

Patient quote of the day:

Mr. Moore: "I just got a new computer. It has a 1 trilobite hard drive."

14 comments:

lbparker said...

Its a real fossil!

thethingspatientssay said...

Our hospital uses some about that ancient.

PA Honeybee said...

Wow, how many people would actually use trilobite in a sentence let alone out of context?

Loren Pechtel said...

A trilobite is awfully old. Windows actually runs on such a system????

Rick said...

...and 300 mil's of RAM.

Reds Kevin said...

What's a trilobite? I studied IT but never heard of it before

Anonymous said...

what is a trilobite?? i never heard of it!!is it like B/W TV old?

Grumpy, M.D. said...

Trilobites were a lifeform during the Cambrian period, several hundred million years ago.

Slave to ungrateful lawyers said...

only a troglodyte would announce the size of his hard drive.

Nurse K said...

Love it! Used to go trilobite hunting as a kid...Lots of them to find if you know where to look.

Randomly, I saw a little girl wearing a version of this shirt the other day, and it cracked me up.

ronstew said...

I feel clever when I immediately know the reference in the patient's name. This could be a reference to Moore's law - essentially that computers double in complexity every two years. Gordon E. Moore co-founded Intel.

I feel less clever for using Google to learn of an important document on trilobites edited by Raymond Moore in 1959: Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part O, Arthropoda 1, including Trilobitomorpha)

Lipstick said...

never heard of a trilobite (trilobyte?)....I did instantly think of a tribble though. Semi-random.

cliffintokyo said...

Millions of years old beasties vs millions of kilobytes beasts.
Not much (!) difference, really...
except the computer probably has more memory.

Therrin (Ben S) said...

Soon, he will be overrun with them. They will fill all the cupboards and closets, eat all the food, and--

Oh, trilobite. I suppose that's not as much trouble.

 
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