The End of the Raven\u201c by Poe\u2019s cat<\/a> \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\nUnd dann habe ich noch eine nicht mehr ganz tau\u00adfri\u00adsche \u201emodern inter\u00adpre\u00adta\u00adti\u00adon\u201c (MS-DOS l\u00e4sst gr\u00fc\u00dfen):<\/p>\n
Once upon a mid\u00adnight drea\u00adry, fin\u00adgers cram\u00adped and visi\u00adon bleary,
\nSys\u00adtem manu\u00adals piled high and was\u00adted paper on the floor,
\nLon\u00adging for the warmth of bed-sheets, still I sat the\u00adre, doing
\nspreadsheets:
\nHaving rea\u00adched the bot\u00adtom line, I took a flop\u00adpy from the drawer.
\nTyp\u00ading with a ste\u00adady hand, I then invo\u00adked the \u201eSave\u201c command
\nAnd wai\u00adted for the disk to store, Only this and not\u00adhing more.<\/p>\n
Deep into the moni\u00adtor pee\u00adring, long I sat the\u00adre, won\u00add\u2019ring, fearing,
\nDoubting, while the disk kept chur\u00adning, tur\u00adning yet to churn some more.
\n\u201eSave!\u201c I said, \u201eYou cur\u00adsed mother! Save my data from before!\u201c
\nOne thing did the phos\u00adphors ans\u00adwer, only this and not\u00adhing more,
\nJust, \u201eAbort, Retry, Ignore?\u201c<\/p>\n
Was this some occult illu\u00adsi\u00adon? Some mania\u00adcal intrusion?
\nThe\u00adse were choices unde\u00adsi\u00adred, ones I\u2019d never faced before.
\nCareful\u00adly, I weig\u00adhed the choices, as the disk made mons\u00adtrous noises.
\nThe cur\u00adsor flas\u00adhed, insis\u00adtent, wai\u00adting, bai\u00adting me to press a key.
\nCle\u00adar\u00adly I must press a key, choo\u00adsing one and not\u00adhing more,
\nFrom, \u201eAbort, Retry, Ignore?\u201c<\/p>\n
With fin\u00adgers pale and trembling, slow\u00adly toward the keyboard
\nben\u00adding, Lon\u00adging for some hap\u00adpy ending, hoping all would be restored,
\nPray\u00ading for some gua\u00adran\u00adtee, timid\u00adly I pres\u00adsed a key.
\nBut on the screen the\u00adre still per\u00adsis\u00adted, words appearing as before.
\nGhast\u00adly grim they blin\u00adked and taun\u00adted, shaun\u00adted, as my pati\u00adence wore,
\nSay\u00ading, \u201eAbort, Retry, Ignore?\u201c<\/p>\n
I tried to catch the chips off guard\u2011I pres\u00adsed again, but twice
\nas hard. I plea\u00added with the cur\u00adsed machine:
\nI beg\u00adged and cried and then I swore.
\nThen I tried in despe\u00adra\u00adti\u00adon, seve\u00adral ran\u00addom combinations,
\nStill the\u00adre came the incan\u00adta\u00adti\u00adon, just as sen\u00adse\u00adl\u00adess as before.
\nCur\u00adsor blin\u00adking, mocking, win\u00adking, flas\u00adhing non\u00adsen\u00adse as before.
\nRea\u00adding, \u201eAbort, Retry, Ignore?\u201c<\/p>\n
The\u00adre I sat, dis\u00adtraught, exhaus\u00adted; by my own machi\u00adne accosted.
\nGet\u00adting up I tur\u00adned away and paced across the office floor.
\nAnd then I saw a dreadful sight: a light\u00adning bolt cut through the
\nnight.
\nA gasp of hor\u00adror over\u00adtook me, shook me to my very core.
\nThe light\u00adning zap\u00adped my pre\u00advious data, lost and gone forevermore.
\nNot even, \u201eAbort, Retry, Ignore?\u201c<\/p>\n
To this day I do not know the place to which lost data goes.
\nWhat demo\u00adnic nether world is wrought whe\u00adre data will be stored,
\nBey\u00adond the reach of mor\u00adtal souls, bey\u00adond the ether, in black holes?
\nBut as sure as there\u2019s C, Pas\u00adcal, Lotus, Ash\u00adton-Tate and more,
\nYou will be one day left to wan\u00adder, lost on some Plu\u00adto\u00adni\u00adan shore,
\nPlea\u00adding, \u201eAbort, Retry, Ignore?\u201c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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