On Fri night the 'Geek whisperer' came round and we rebuilt the Dell CPi R400GT portable. Reformatted the hard drive and reloaded the operating system, Win 98SE - took 2½ hours from saving data to surfing the web with Firefox. I still need to fix the USB port somehow - needs driver - but the machine performs like new. I christened the machine Boothill - long hill to get it to boot - gedit?
The Geek is going to set up my network later - he gets where I am coming from - "it is like working on a Model T." Some folk have suggested I buy a Mac and forget about crappy old computers but they have all the appeal of old cars for me. I wish I had my old 8-bit Amstrad, with its daisy wheel printer, that served me so well. And the Canon Bubblejet come to think of it.
Update: USB now fixed!
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