How It's Used

“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.

Also Known As (AKA)

BSoD

Links

Related on eAlmanac
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