Them blasted hard drives...

From: Philip Pemberton <philpem_at_dsl.pipex.com>
Date: Mon Mar 22 17:53:34 2004

In message <33077.216.90.98.232.1079995947.squirrel_at_152.160.5.70>
          "Jim Donoghue" <jim_at_smithy.com> wrote:

> I did that with the hard drive in the voice mail PC once. The software was
> an obsolete DOS program, and the phone guys couldn't reinstall it. So, I
> put the hard drive outside for a while (it was 30F outside), and it lasted
> just long enough to copy the files from it.
I hope you backed up the software after you'd finished copying it off the
stuffed up drive :)
Anyway, the drive I've got here is about five years old - I got it in
September 1999, so it doesn't exactly owe me anything. Now I just need to
install a few security patches onto the router, then open up a few ports on
the firewall. Fun!

Later.
-- 
Phil.                              | Acorn Risc PC600 Mk3, SA202, 64MB, 6GB,
philpem_at_dsl.pipex.com              | ViewFinder, 10BaseT Ethernet, 2-slice,
http://www.philpem.dsl.pipex.com/  | 48xCD, ARCINv6c IDE, SCSI
... Hello, I am part number ????????????????
Received on Mon Mar 22 2004 - 17:53:34 GMT

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