Joel Uckelman on 8 Dec 2000 01:24:14 -0000


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Re: spoon-discuss: Re: spoon-business: Re: proposal recognition and stuff, and stuff.


Quoth Jeff Schroeder:
> At 07:11 PM 12/7/00, Joel wrote:
> ><snip>
> >The situation was made worse by the mechanical failure of the hard drive 
> >on my desktop machine--I didn't lose any game stuff, or really anything 
> >else important, fortunately, but it certainly set me back a day or so. 
> >Must ... finish ... work... (Avid Joel-watchers will note that that was 
> >the fourth hard drive I've had suffer mechanical failure since January 
> >1998. It's like the cloud of misfortune from Dilbert is following me 
> >around. Speaking of "clouds of misfortune", that sounds like a neat 
> >proposal idea.)
> 
> 
> Damn, what kind of hard drive do you have?  Western Digital?

HD death count:

2 Seagate
2 Western Digigal

Still going:

1 Western Digital
2 Digital (big, old, SCSI)
1 whatever is in this laptop

-- 
J.