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Re: @@@ BACKUP your files NOW !!!!! @@@

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From: ewd_tang
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 00:00
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In concordia.general Masataka Noda <masa@radiotelephone.net.PAS_DE_SPAM> wrote:
: ... like I said usual... I was sure I could do something for this
: problem WITHOUT having a university degree - bachelor of engineering
: or whatever.   So... I opened up the box (which was screwed with more
: than 10 nails) and saw if anything was funny... (it is not very easy

And you need a Univ bach to fix your computer?
Hell, I'll just send over an 8 year old.

: to see the system inside since it is a laptop. everything is packed
: very tightly)...    hard drive seemed to be ok... but how could I
: check the inside of HDD...     one of the plate says QC passed in
: 1986...  well... was it because of age ??  uhh....   my mind was
: crazy... not knowing what to do.   I almost completely separeted the

1986? What kind of bloody laptop is that? It should be a LUGGABLE, not a
laptop. (or perhaps a lunchbox)

: entire unit...   and umm... I saw something... one of three lines
: (it's like the lines connected to internal HDD of desktop but the
: scale is much smaller and it looks like a piece of plastic... 0.5cm
: width) is not hooked up.   Well... I saw the black stripes at the end
: but I didn't see same thing for other two.   Well... maybe this was
: special and shouldn't be connected.   Wait a minute... I saw an empty
: plug...   "maybe this stuff would fit here..."    In fact it did.
: But which direction it should be ?   I had to bet.  Oh God...

Yeah, whatever.


: So... in any cases...   I would like to say to myself... welcome back
: to newsgroups !!!!


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From: ewd_tang@ece.concordia.ca
Subject: Re: @@@ BACKUP your files NOW !!!!! @@@
Date: 1998/10/22
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