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From: byoder@smcnet.smc.edu (Brian Yoder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: What's in Your Fix-It Kit?
Summary: More Tools
Keywords: tools
Message-ID: <1990May5.012834.1816@smcnet.smc.edu>
Date: 5 May 90 01:28:34 GMT
References: <6858@blake.acs.washington.edu> <1990May3.212119.12846@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>
Organization: Peter Norton Computing
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In article <1990May3.212119.12846@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> wargopl@image.soe.clarkson.edu (Peter L. Wargo) writes:
>From article <6858@blake.acs.washington.edu>, by djo7613@blake.acs.washington.edu (Dick O'Connor):
>> But what's in your kit?  I'd like to informally poll the NetMind to find out
>> what other support folks bring to the scene of the crime, as it were.
>> I know I'll learn something, and I'll post a summary to the net after a week
>> or so.  For starters, my little black bag has...
 
>>    Your basic zipper pouch tool kit 
>>    A write-protected diskette with John McAfee's SCAN and CLEANP programs
>>    Three 360K diskettes with working copies of Norton Utils, V4.5
>>    A copy of Central Point's MI.COM to peek into memory usage
>>    A copy of PC SHELL for file and subdirectory manipulation
>>    A copy of Disk Manager
>>    A copy of an AT setup program, origin unknown

>Add to that the following:

>    A LARGE ROLL OF DUCT TAPE!
>    Contact cleaner
>    Assorted RAM chips of 64K - 1M bit types
>    (Make sure they work)
>    A digital Multimeter
>    A copy of PKZIP, PKARC, and ZOO
>    A version of DOS w/o disk manager.
>    (I use Zenith's 3.3+)
>    Spinrite/Spintest
>    And, for those frustrating failures, a small, rubber mallet...

My first aid kit also contains:

	A copy of Norton Commander (instead of that nasty CPS thing ;-)
	A Small Flashlight
	A Micronta pocket microscope(comes in handy more often than you'd think)
	DISSASEM disassembler
	OBJASM object module disassembler
	PD versions of the unix utilities cp, rm, and grep

I hope that helps.

Brian Yoder
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