[BITList] beer

[franka]

Hugh
That's good you will be able to get a lot more done now that you have a 
machine with a bit of get up and go
frank

On 1/27/2011 11:45 PM, HUGH wrote:
> Thursday,
> Frank,
> I haven't yet investigated the beer link. My purpose in sending this 
> is to explain my absence of a few days.  On the 23rd, my PC refused to 
> boot up, and a corrupted operating system was diagnosed by the place I 
> use for such matters, so I left it with them.  Next day, they said the 
> master hard drive was kaput, and quoted £120 for a jury rig sort of 
> solution with no guarantees the saem wouldn't happen again. The PC had 
> been having instability problems for a few weeks, and I saw no reason 
> to doubt their opinion - not only was it old, it was SLOW.  While I 
> was mulling over this, one of them had a brainwave and offered me a 
> reconditioned DELL for £150, plus £15 to recover what they could from 
> the HD on the other machine.  This I accepted.  So this afternoon I 
> have a machine approx 4 times faster than the other, with (as far as I 
> can see), all of my files recovered. They threw in an optical mouse 
> and a USB keyboard, these being needed for the DELL.  So, it's back to 
> the 63 emails.
> Hugh.
>
>
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