Anyone else with an interest in Fortune Systems ?

From: Sellam Ismail <foo_at_siconic.com>
Date: Sat Dec 16 13:42:49 2000

On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, Rob Kapteyn wrote:

> My Fortune is complete and basically works, except that it has a
> really flaky hard drive. (It makes lots of noise and runs about 15
> minutes before warms up and quits working).

Sounds like you need to stick it in the freezer :)

Try adding some more fans to the box to help keep the drive cool. It'll
probably run stably for great lengths of time (until it just up and
crashes).

I have a Fortune 32:16 as well. The only one I've ever seen. I guess
that makes it uncommon too, by my own standards :) The floppy mechanism
on mine needs work. I have a Fortune terminal but I don't think it's the
special kind that was mentioned was required to interface with it. I
don't have a keyboard either.

Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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