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|2-The Invisible Arsonist!
November 5th came a little early for MôN PD last year. Read on...
On the 10th October, we eagerly opened our letter from a well known
Internet provider who had processed our details for connection to the
Internet. The letter included our IP and E-mail addresses. So onto our
A1200 we went which had it's HD pre-loaded with the gubbins to get us up
and running on the net.
After rolling a dice to see who should dial a number in, it was Rich who
got the arduous job of pressing the keyboard. After a few squeaks,
beeps and farts from both the modem and Rich, the computer called it a
day, ran up the white flag and crashed!
Several bruises, black-eyes and passes of the buck! Later, we consoled
each other that it must have been a technical hitch. So we re-booted to
be greeted with a black screen, not good news, tried booting from the
internal disk drive - still no luck! Oh Dear!!...or words to that
effect.
Dilapidated, inoperative, kaput and exhausted, the computer didn't get
off too lightly either, we phoned a repairer who said "Come on down".
Several days later we phoned the technician who asked if we believed in
miracles, strange time to get all religious with us? He said the serial
line and associated chips had seen some action, in fact the innards of
the pooter resembled a scene out of "London's Burning" he whispered in
his best cockney accent.
After six weeks of begging, borrowing and stealing other peoples
A1200's, we finally got the phonecall we'd been dreading. "It's beyond
economical repair lads", and with that just asked us to pay thirteen
quid to ship the coffin back to North Wales. The bloke reckoned the
modem cable had come out of the back of the computer during operation
and was, in his 10 years experience, the most likely cause!!
So what is the point of all this you ask, well if you're thinking of
going on line or indeed you're connecting any external devices to the
Amiga, be bloody careful cos we now have a rather cumbersome looking
paperweight. Keyboard anyone...?
You have been warned!!!
|1-Rich & Kev/MôN PD
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