A BT payphone observed adjacent to the John Lewis department store on Oxford St, London. It’s Windows based operating system had apparantly just crashed, and some passing samaritan decided to help BT by performing a low-level format on the embedded computer’s hard-disk.
In case you are perplexed, this garishly coloured screen is the BIOS setup utility, it’s available in an almost identical form on just about every PC that has been made in the last 20 years and is intended to boot the system, plus provide some utilities that allow an engineer to perform the initial system setup. As more and more devices require computing power, every-day devices gradually turn into PCs, and as such this kind of thing will become an everyday occurence.
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