down for the count

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Just minutes after posting the afix wave editor package and sending a note
to the list about it, my modest system did a feeble imitation of HAL in 2001
and took a nose dive. I was unable to do the three finger salute to shut
down and had to do it the wrong way. After several attempts to restart the
system failed in a similar fashion half way through the FSCK procedure, I
now have a very dead system with the likelihood of serious file system
corruption if I ever get it up again (the computer, that is!) It looks to me
like a power supply failure for several reasons other than the above.

I am now reduced to nettamer in DOS on a 486SX - a kind of Timex lookalike!
I will keep an eye (ear?) on list mail but will not otherwise be very active
until I get the hardware people to look at this thing and decide whether to
bandaid it or plunk down for a shiny new system. I am inclined 5toward the
latter, and in fact am seriously thinking about one of those Dell jobs with
Linux pre-installed. Any reactions pro or con would be not only appreciated
but quite timely right now.

Chuck.