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to: TOASTMAN@JEBBS
from: JIM LERCH
date: 1996-05-14 04:02:00
subject: Re: CRASH

 -=> Quoting Toastman to Sysop <=-
 To> TO:  SYSOP@1:267/72
 To> FR:  TOASTMAN
 To> RE:  CATASTROPHE !!!   CRASH !!!
 To> .
 To> Hi, Don - Just dropped in to tell you I'm sorry if my computer messed
 To> up your system yesterday.   What hoppen was.....
 To> .
 To> Last week ***- Ni.Mo. -***  was working on our street.   I
 To> didn't pay much attention to them and went about working on "AST", my
 To> computer here.
 To> .
 To> All of a sudden there was a power failure that only lasted a
 To> fraction of a second = The lights went out, my screen went out and
 To> then the lights and my screen came back on.
 To> .
 To> This happened three or four times before I got wise and shut
 To> down.
 To> .
 To> The outages did not even throw "AST" off line, or cause the
 To> Electric Clocks to reset to 00:00:00 - and even the V.C.R. Clock
 To> stayed current !!!
 To> .
 To> However, as I later discovered, it payed havoc with my
 To> computer, I.E., hashing F.A.T. tables and Files alike, especially it
 To> ruined my "I_OMEGA ZIP DRIVE" which I was using at the time and
 To> scrambled my main Hard Drive [C] !!!
 To> .
 To> I had back-ups for everything, but current accounts I was
 To> working on at the end of the month of April - and I'm afraid I lost two
 To> -(2)- accounts that were delinquent into last year -(I do not make a
 To> print- out for every account or I would be burried in paper = THIS IS A
 To> "PAPERLESS" OFFICE - as they say.
 To> .
 To> I will be running, like this, off a floppy disc. for a time
 To> until I get restored -(if ever)- so PLEASE DON'T TAKE ME OFF YOUR
 To> MEMBERSHIP ROLLS IN YOUR COMPUTER, or I will have the trouble that
 To> SCRIBE has !!! .
 To> So, now I know what you went through last July !!! more or
 To> less. .
 To> Take care, buddy.....   YE OLDE @1:267/72
 To> .
 To> -/ /-
 To> .
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