OT: Grrrrrr!

In article <[email hidden]>, one of infinite monkeys at the keyboard of

Just zis Guy said:

Marvin is back online, but Zaphod's system disk has just packed up! and not one of them more than
six years old!

Seems to be a Feechur of recent computers.

My two ('95 and '96 models) still have their original discs going strong. But more recent discs -
like the huge 6Gb upgrade I bought in late-98 for working working on HyperDAAC - have packed up.

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registry resellers. Demon have offered me a decent service, so I can kick the rest into touch.

Grrr ... Demon seem good until something catastrophic happens. I got [censored] after two extended
periods with no connectivity in a week - following which I researched alternatives. Next time it
happened I subscribed to an alternative.

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you know? said:

Marvin is back online, but Zaphod's system disk has just packed up! Aaaaarghh! Poxy computers. I
might have to bite the bullet and actually buy a PC -

I run a few mini-ITXes at home. Linux works great on them. They're quiet too. (Its easy to Google
for a relpy email to me)

you know? said:

Marvin is back online, but Zaphod's system disk has just packed up!

Zaphod is running fine here as he has been for the last 6 years or so.
🙂

Just zis Guy said:

Marvin is back online, but Zaphod's system disk has just packed up!

Must be having two heads that caused it ;-)

Tony

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Luckily Slartibartfast is a Proper Computer (TM) - an HP Netserver.

Why should that help? The horribly expensive disks on the IBM servers (RS6000?) at work seem just as
prone to collapsing as the cheap ones..

cheers, clive