Computer help (Got)

To All:

About a week ago I posted an appeal for help with my computer sys,
damaged during a recent stay in hospital. I've been using a lap-top
as the controller. The keyboard was physically damaged (key broken
off) and start-up wasn't starting up. Since all of the addresses were
in the lap-top, I no longer had access to about a terabyte of data.

I ordered a replacement keyboard (about $40 incl. shipping). Arrived
today. Dismantled the lap-top, found the #2 disk drive slightly out
of position, lots of dirt, etc.

Installed the new keyboard, straightened things out.

Operation normal in all respects.The work took about 1.5 hrs,
following instructions found on the internet.

The lap-top will be temporarily re-integrated with the system. When
everything is running normally I'll swap it out, replace it with
something more suitable... like a Vic-20 :-)

-R.S.Hoover

wrote:
To All:

About a week ago I posted an appeal for help with my computer sys,
damaged during a recent stay in hospital. I've been using a lap-top
as the controller. The keyboard was physically damaged (key broken
off) and start-up wasn't starting up. Since all of the addresses were
in the lap-top, I no longer had access to about a terabyte of data.

I ordered a replacement keyboard (about $40 incl. shipping). Arrived
today. Dismantled the lap-top, found the #2 disk drive slightly out
of position, lots of dirt, etc.

Installed the new keyboard, straightened things out.

Operation normal in all respects.The work took about 1.5 hrs,
following instructions found on the internet.

The lap-top will be temporarily re-integrated with the system. When
everything is running normally I'll swap it out, replace it with
something more suitable... like a Vic-20 :-)

-R.S.Hoover

Hey! I still have a couple VIC-20s and a C-64 laying around!!!
Unfortunately, they are not for sale...still use them to practice
machine language programming Who says "kids" always do things the
hard way???

Scott
Corben Junior Ace (Continental powered)

On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:38:28 +0000, Scott
wrote:

wrote:
To All:

About a week ago I posted an appeal for help with my computer sys,
damaged during a recent stay in hospital. I've been using a lap-top
as the controller. The keyboard was physically damaged (key broken
off) and start-up wasn't starting up. Since all of the addresses were
in the lap-top, I no longer had access to about a terabyte of data.

I ordered a replacement keyboard (about $40 incl. shipping). Arrived
today. Dismantled the lap-top, found the #2 disk drive slightly out
of position, lots of dirt, etc.

Installed the new keyboard, straightened things out.

Operation normal in all respects.The work took about 1.5 hrs,
following instructions found on the internet.

The lap-top will be temporarily re-integrated with the system. When
everything is running normally I'll swap it out, replace it with
something more suitable... like a Vic-20 :-)

-R.S.Hoover

Hey! I still have a couple VIC-20s and a C-64 laying around!!!
Unfortunately, they are not for sale...still use them to practice
machine language programming Who says "kids" always do things the
hard way???

Scott
Corben Junior Ace (Continental powered)
Radio Shack CoCo 2 with A-Dos, dual 360 floppies, monitor driver and
OS9 and an MC10 still sitting on my shelf. The COCo has an e-prom
burner on it that I built over 20 years ago. The MC10 was modified to
run off 12 volts DC - we were going to use it as a rally calculator in
the R12 but never found a suitable display before I gave up rally
driving and got married.
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When
everything is running normally I'll swap it out, replace it with
something more suitable... like a Vic-20 :-)

-R.S.Hoover

I can't help you with the VIC20 but I have a 10mhz PCXT clone you can
have. It has a whopping 2 meg hard disk and comes with a
plus-development 40 meg hard card that can be installed later for a
total of 60 megs of hard disk space on DOS 3.2 formated FAT 12 drives.

Tony