Subj : Re: First computer stories?
To   : Ogg
From : PainAndLoathing
Date : Wed Jun 28 2023 09:57:38

My first "real" computer was a hand me down IBM 286 with 1MB of RAM and a whopping 20MB hard drive.It came with a 3 ring binder instruction manual for the computer, MS DOS 3.1 and the main program that it came with called "First Choice" (if my memory serves). I glanced over the manual a bit, trying to see what I could do, I came across the "scandisk" command and decided to run it. When it finished it said that I had a couple of "bad sectors" on the hard drive. We couldn't have that, I thought so in looking through the DOS directory on the drive, I noticed a command...fdisk. My stupid brain thought "hrmmm, that must mean "FIX DISK"! so I ran it, having absolutely no clue about what I was doing I managed to blow out the partition table.

When I rebooted, boy did I get a surprise! just the "insert system disk and press enter" message. I decided to spend some quality time with the manual and was able to finally fix things and get all of the software reinstalled. I spent a lot of time with that computer...Breaking things then learning how to fix them.

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