[rescue] Happiness is:

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Tue Apr 1 09:46:54 CDT 2008


Michael-John Turner wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 10:24:34AM -0500, Timothy Baldridge wrote:
>> On the flip side, totally crushing depression is seeing any type of
>> SGI equipment not being loved and cared for.
> 
> Sounds like my poor Indy. It was mailed to me in Cape Town by someone in
> New York and they just tossed it in a box with some plastic peanuts. This
> wasn't helped by the fact that the HD wasn't screwed in, so it bounced
> around the case... When I got the machine, the CPU had been knocked out of
> its socket and had bent pins and a fair amount of plastic had been broken
> off the case. Sadly I could do nothing about the case, but I straightened
> the CPU pins with a knife and the machine has worked like a champ ever
> since.

Did the hard drive (miraculously) survive?

Peace...  Sridhar



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