Re: Computer meltdown ;-(

[Kevin C Houston <hous0042@maroon.tc.umn.edu>]

On Tue, 12 Mar 1996, Timothy van der Linden wrote:

> >I think the avalance from Brian did it.  Disk fry via E-mail.  Lets all
> >blame Brian.  <gerrrr>
> 
> Having another new member who has much free time (?) may overflow our
> mail-boxes even more.
> 
> >Well at least hard drives are very cheap now a days.  It could have been
> >something expensive like RAM or a monitor.
> 
> If anything brakes down around my computer, it better happens the next 2.5
> years, untill then I've full repair/replace service (for only 300 guilders).
> (I already have had a monitor meltdown (literally))
> 
> Kevin, good luck (hope you had some resent backups)
> 


i feel I should explain.  I didn't lose any data.  The reason I want to 
swap a hard drive out is because i got a bigger one from my father.  The 
OS/2 that I run is crammed on a 40 Meg hard drive, And I want to have 
more breathing room.  i still don't know what caused my computer to stop 
working, but i have been able to get it partially up.  (But I had to use 
a back up copy of my desktop which didn't include any of the internet 
applications.  So I am still resorting to telnet connection to read/reply 
to mail.  But it is very slow.  i very often overun My cursor.  Reading 
is easier, but writing is, as you see, still possible.

Kevin