Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen
From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: computer follies
Message-ID: <12153@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 17 Sep 88 17:59:34 GMT
References: <1109@idec.stc.co.uk>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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I have had to recover a few disks, too. I dropped one on the floor and
leaned over to pick it up. Unfortunately I was leaning back in my chair
when it dropped and I put the leg of the chair right on the disk. Lost
about 60% of the data, but salvaged what I didn't have backed up by
ignoring the parity errors.

I have a friend who is desperately worried about air polution, who
screams "animal hair" and suggests that I use positive pressure in the
computer room. The only problem I've had with hair came from something
later identified as coming from my beard.

My animal problems are more typical. Remember the kid who always said he
didn't have his homework because " the dog ate it?" I had a puppy gnaw
on a floppy, which did not miraculously work afterword. She also at a
record and the cover of a large dictionary. I did salvage a disk which
was washed in cat piss, after removing it, washing it, and putting it
back in a clean cover. A monitor treated the same way couldn't be saved,
the tech claimed it ate a layer out of the motherboard.

Now I have a nice locked room, and no one sits on my lap when I type...

-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me