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."
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14 comments:

  1. lbparkerSeptember 6, 2011 at 4:36 PM

    Its a real fossil!

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  2. thethingspatientssaySeptember 6, 2011 at 4:42 PM

    Our hospital uses some about that ancient.

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  3. PA HoneybeeSeptember 6, 2011 at 5:28 PM

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

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  4. Loren PechtelSeptember 6, 2011 at 6:35 PM

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

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  5. RickSeptember 6, 2011 at 7:42 PM

    ...and 300 mil's of RAM.

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  6. Reds KevinSeptember 6, 2011 at 8:19 PM

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

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  7. AnonymousSeptember 6, 2011 at 10:24 PM

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

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  8. Grumpy, M.D.September 6, 2011 at 10:39 PM

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

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  9. Slave to ungrateful lawyersSeptember 6, 2011 at 11:24 PM

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

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  10. Nurse KSeptember 6, 2011 at 11:39 PM

    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.

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  11. ronstewSeptember 6, 2011 at 11:57 PM

    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)

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  12. LipstickSeptember 7, 2011 at 1:16 AM

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

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  13. cliffintokyoSeptember 7, 2011 at 5:00 AM

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

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  14. Therrin (Ben S)September 7, 2011 at 7:26 AM

    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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So wadda you think?