You wrote; "failures were common whereas now they are rear." I think we know what you meant. Scott Howell wrote: > Ah, this reminds me of a very interesting problem I ran into. > Mind you this is from the days when most chips were socketed and > actually cost some money. Yes, this was an old 386-SX 25 I was running > my bbs and Fidonet mail service on. > I bet some of you remember Fidonet, BinkleyTerm, node lists, RBBS, > Maximus, Opus, and so on. Hell does anyone remember bonk and the node > list mungers? > In any case this old 386 was crankin' for its time, but it had one > incredibly odd problem. You could put a floppy in, read, copy from it, > and all that no problem. If you attempted to write to it the trouble > would start. Files on the disk would disappear or the disk would just > turn out trashed. Months went by with every possible diagnostic trick > done and never did find the problem. I ended up deciding it was the DMA > chip on the board, but never got a chance to replace it. Ended up > tossing the board or giving it away I can't remember, but upgraded to a > screamming 386-DX 33. > And to think I ran that bbs on an AST 286 with 130Mb hd and that was > considered one of the largest bbs systems in the area. Oh yes screamming > along at 9600 baud.<grin> > I've not heard a story yet that has surprised me about hardware > failures. I can remember when failures were common whereas now they are > rear. > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
