In the computer graveyard

Yesterday I left the Delta looking like this…

…rather as if it had gone to sleep for a hundred years and the creepers have finally made their slow, creeping way through the castle… But I can assure you it was the scene of much activity less than 24 hours ago. Of course, I should be lashed on and weaving by now, but have instead spent the morning in the computer graveyard resurrecting old machines in search of a crucial piece of evidence relating to the ‘new’ one.

I don’t know whether it is a deliberate policy of the manufacturer, but it is quite devious of the new computer – now nearly a year old – to have repeatedly erased all the emails relating to its purchase, which have been transferred from the old computer no less than three times. Last week’s attempt to recover said emails yet again – from the hard drive which has been the faithful intermediary throughout this relationship – caused the hard drive power cable to explode and blew the fuse to all the IT-connected sockets in the study. Amazingly, no computers (or routers or printers or hard drives) were defenestrated as a result of this incident, though it took me all evening to ascertain that no damage had been done to any of the other equipment and a week to get a new power cable. And the email backup isn’t on the hard drive any more… So in the computer graveyard I sit, surrounded by dusty mice. No creepers here, though. Not yet.

“In the computer graveyard” was posted by Cally on 19 Feb 2015 at http://callybooker.co.uk