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A Sad Day

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My keyboard died. Not the feeble instrument on which I’m typing this entry, but my main keyboard. My 1991 IBM Model M. King of keyboards. Previously thought indestructible…

Ironically, I was trying to type ‘M’ when I noticed. Nothing happened. ‘Z’, ‘#’ and the return key had all apparently suffered the same fate. The wiring appears sound, and prying under the keycaps of clickiness yielded no answers.

I’ll investigate further, naturally, but I suspect I’m going to have to accept my loss.

25th March 1991 – 8th September 2005. RIP…

Back to Life

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Okay, perhaps I underestimated how much I need my computer.

I ordered a replacement 80Gb hard drive from dabs.com yesterday, paid just over £40 (including the extra fee for next-day delivery), and it arrived on my desk this afternoon.

I remember paying more than £200, and waiting weeks for my first ever hard drive to arrive. It was a 340Mb drive, for my Amiga 1200. Now that’s going back a while.

I only complained about the hassle of reinstalling Windows last week, and now I’m having to do it again. Instant karma?

General Failure

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Who is ‘General Failure’ and why is he reading my hard disk?

The old joke is rather less funny this evening, since my hard drive is currently doing a passable impression of a washing machine full of rusty nails. I’m only able to post this entry because of the godsend that is Knoppix.

I fly to Thailand on Saturday, and I doubt I’ll be buying a new hard drive before then. So apologies in advance for what I guess will be a severe lack of entries this week…