Cyber Cafe: UMIST
Created | Updated Oct 20, 2010
No, no internet here.
The cyber cafe at UMIST in Manchester is only loosely based on original idea. Yes there are computers there, but no, there is no internet access.
They do however sell good cheap food. From between one and two pounds (depending on filling) you can purches a foot long baguette roll. These can then be consumed in the room they were purchesed to the wonderfull sound of Brittans "popular" music, or you can walk next door to the computer room. Sadly (this is hard to say) there is no piped music, largley due to the fact that the speakers have broken. When you have consumed you chosen substance/s you may then indulge in a bit of time "surfing". This, although a bad word in it's self, has nothing to do with the activitys you can enjoy on these computers. Internet Explorer is on but not functioning, even if you could put up with the sub 486 performance these P200's can produce. On the rare occasions that all five computers are working properly the best exploitation of the situation is to play Quake. Normaly one gives up and crashes, at least two mice won't turn right, one mouse won't work at all and the pittiful resolution and speed they work at anyway makes for a very bad representation of Quake.
The cyber cafe at UMIST in Manchester is only loosely based on original idea. Yes there are computers there, but no, there is no internet access.
They do however sell good cheap food. From between one and two pounds (depending on filling) you can purches a foot long baguette roll. These can then be consumed in the room they were purchesed to the wonderfull sound of Brittans "popular" music, or you can walk next door to the computer room. Sadly (this is hard to say) there is no piped music, largley due to the fact that the speakers have broken. When you have consumed you chosen substance/s you may then indulge in a bit of time "surfing". This, although a bad word in it's self, has nothing to do with the activitys you can enjoy on these computers. Internet Explorer is on but not functioning, even if you could put up with the sub 486 performance these P200's can produce. On the rare occasions that all five computers are working properly the best exploitation of the situation is to play Quake. Normaly one gives up and crashes, at least two mice won't turn right, one mouse won't work at all and the pittiful resolution and speed they work at anyway makes for a very bad representation of Quake.
