In memory of MAT. Your favourite peice of hardware?

Reed · Post by **Reed** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 10:54 am

btw, instead of transplanting Mat to a new body, to keep him there. Wouldnt it be better to upgrade his spirit to cyberspace, making him truly immortal. Virtual Machine Mat^^, you could prolly even fit his virtual spirit in something portable, like a pcmcia disk or a cd. There is no death in IT, thats for sure!

Bourkey · Post by **Bourkey** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 10:56 am

rip mat

such sad stories!

Post by **Xest** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 11:03 am

Reed wrote:btw, instead of transplanting Mat to a new body, to keep him there. Wouldnt it be better to upgrade his spirit to cyberspace, making him truly immortal. Virtual Machine Mat^^, you could prolly even fit his virtual spirit in something portable, like a pcmcia disk or a cd. There is no death in IT, thats for sure!

It just wouldn't be the same, Mat is like a trusty old workhorse, you can't just put him in some pentium 4 or something like that oh no, you need the good old machines.

I must say though what intrigues me about the whole episode is how such a low spec machine managed to even ever get so hot, I'm sure back in those days even without a fan you'd struggle to get your processor to that kind of temp

Ankh Morpork · Post by **Ankh Morpork** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 11:04 am

I remember when one of my breadbox c64's died

I tried to move her and her 3 brothers at the same time but she slipped and smashed into thousands of pieces on the ground

oh well, to honor her I ripped off her case and nailed her to the wall

/Ankh

Reed · Post by **Reed** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 11:29 am

heat resistant material being more dense, today I guess it's a miminum cause the rest is dedicated to transistors n stuff. Faulty heat sensor getting damaged when core reached critical, and it wasnt really 98degrees?. The resistance or diode(sp?), which control voltage might be damaged so it got more power, and got hot cause of that.... who knows XD

Cyfr · Post by **Cyfr** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 11:31 am

I have news, MAT called!

Sardine · Post by **Sardine** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 11:40 am

R.I.P Matty

The least you could do is give him a proper funeral tbh ;<

Post by **Xest** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 11:47 am

Cyfr wrote:I have news, MAT called!

Yes, the first time he ever spoke when he called and he sounded very much like you, such a coincidence!

Bourkey · Post by **Bourkey** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 11:48 am

Xest wrote:Yes, the first time he ever spoke when he called and he sounded very much like you, such a coincidence!

Did cyfr really ring you lol?

Cyfr · Post by **Cyfr** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 12:26 pm

No... it was MAT...

*looks around*