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Blue Screen of Death (computers)

Need descriptive intro. Using this entry for the Editor's Choice test

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“After college, I switched to a surplus laptop of my dad's, which I adapted to use a little clip-on trackball. It wasn't until 1995 that I got a full-fledged desktop PC with a color monitor and everything — a Dell I upgraded to Windows 95. If memory serves, that PC was replaced by a machine that ran Windows NT (and then Windows ME, which I recall as a parade of blue screens of death separated by brief intervals of work), and then gave way to my current, XP-based PC.”

—Jason Fry, “Real Time: Pondering a New PC,” The Wall Street Journal Online, 10 Sep 07.

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BSoD

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Blue Screen (film)

Beyond eAlmanac
Wikipedia article on the Blue Screen of Death
Miguel Carrasco's Real World Web site has photos of Blue Screens of Death

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