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Monday, 1 March 1999 |
I smell something burning at the back of my Thinkpad.
The AC adaptor's cable is sparking.
A
déjà vu
feeling keeps me calm.
You know, it is the third time this happens to me.
I plug in another adaptor.
Back to business.
The LCD screen broke before. Same story then. Repair would have cost thousands of dollars. At that moment I decided to buy a complete new notebook, same model. That was a wise decision. Had the hard disk and extra memory swapped, and it was up and running again. So at that time, I had a new computer, with the old hard disk and memory. To me, it did not feel like a complete new one. All my things were still there. I kept the old one. You never know what it can be good for. Notebooks breakdown quite often, especially when used intensively. Some spare parts may come in handy. A few months later the hard disk crashed. The amount of misery was still low. Fortunately I had a backup of the most important things. So, the new hard disk in the old notebook swapped places with the old one in the new notebook. Once again, up and running. The new computer really felt like new to me. All familiar settings were gone when the hard disk crashed. The screen was fresh as a virgin, like I just bought it. The old computer was less operational again, having it's own crashed hard disk.
The lid at the back broke.
The smell of burning plastic has somewhat lifted.
AWS Service
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So now I feel like I have only 1 notebook left. Is this thing 'new' or 'old', I don't know. I lost track. | ||
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