Gas Pump Mashup: Software and Signware

I was filling my gas tank the other day and saw this sign on the pump:

Gas pump

Apparently, it’s easier and cheaper to slap a sign on a pump than to fix the software.

I puzzled over this bug a bit; why would a gas pump refer to high-ankled footwear or English trunks? Then I realized it probably refers to “Insert Boot Disk”–I guess there’s some corruption when accessing the string table, perhaps, and sometimes the pump displays the wrong string when prompting for a ZIP code.

“Enter Data,” though, sounds like pure laziness.

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