The progress bar moved in erratic bursts. 12%... 47%... 99%... then back to 3%. The CD drive chattered like a Geiger counter. At 100%, the screen flickered, and the ThinkPad's speakers—tiny, tinny things—emitted a three-note chord that seemed to come from nowhere.
The ISO was only 647 megabytes. Leo burned it to a CD-R with the reverence of a monk illuminating a manuscript. He set up a test machine—a pristine IBM ThinkPad 600E, with its 400MHz Pentium II and 128MB of RAM. The perfect time capsule. Arcaos 5.1 Iso