Comments on: 404 Cats http://cogdogblog.com/2007/05/07/404-cats/ Alan Levine's space for barking about and playing with technology Sat, 26 May 2012 17:11:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Dave Ferguson http://cogdogblog.com/2007/05/07/404-cats/comment-page-1/#comment-27235 Dave Ferguson Wed, 16 May 2007 11:57:28 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/2007/05/07/404-cats/#comment-27235 I once had a telephone tech support person guide me through a problem with a PC hard drive, in the days when 30 megabytes would cost about $300. At one point she had me nudge the bottom of some circular plate on the drive motor with the eraser end of a pencil. It worked. I once had a telephone tech support person guide me through a problem with a PC hard drive, in the days when 30 megabytes would cost about $300.

At one point she had me nudge the bottom of some circular plate on the drive motor with the eraser end of a pencil.

It worked.

]]> By: working cats « all for one and one for all http://cogdogblog.com/2007/05/07/404-cats/comment-page-1/#comment-27228 working cats « all for one and one for all Wed, 16 May 2007 08:55:18 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/2007/05/07/404-cats/#comment-27228 [...] May 15th, 2007 by susaneb 404 Cats [...] [...] May 15th, 2007 by susaneb 404 Cats [...]

]]> By: DT Diggs http://cogdogblog.com/2007/05/07/404-cats/comment-page-1/#comment-27066 DT Diggs Thu, 10 May 2007 04:15:12 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/2007/05/07/404-cats/#comment-27066 The screwdriver-whack trick worked -- or at least it did in the late 1980s. That's how I used to fix my uppity IBM PC. The screwdriver-whack trick worked — or at least it did in the late 1980s. That’s how I used to fix my uppity IBM PC.

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