test please delete

[DaveB]

Then powering the box back up and waitng to see if the if drive would spin up.

[DaveB]

Surprisingly enough most of them did.

[DaveB]

Out of several hundred drives we only lost about half a dozen.

[DaveB]

Although for months afterwards I had a noticable twitch whenever I was asked to do anything with a PS/2 system.

[DaveB]

This was the same site where I managed to wangle a weekends worth of overtime playing the original Doom on the banks network.

[DaveB]

They had a spate of unexplained failures of new PC's. They would crash or restart for no apparent reason.

[DaveB]

I'd run the internal diagnostics on a couple - this was back in the days when PC's still had internal diagnostics - and found some weird memory errors.

[DaveB]

So I persuaded the boss that it would be worth it for me to come in over the weekend and test all the new kit that was in the store room waiting to be rolled out to the users.

[DaveB]

In reality there was about 30 mins work involved to stack the PC's up 12 at a time with a KVM switch, turn them on and kick off the diagnostics.

[DaveB]

Then go an play DOOM for a couple of hours while I waited for them to finish.