Play a funeral dirge...

[jmc_bks]

my home computer has kicked the bucket at last. It lived to a ripe old age, in terms of computer-years. It was nearly 10. Seriously, it keeps asking me to insert the book disk and telling me that it cannot find any of the drives; my brother the computer guy asked me if I had a boot disk. Hello? Ten years ago, a computer-savvy friend assembled my computer, all warranties have long since expired, and it has survived 5 household moves. No, I don't have any of the original material or a boot disk.

Mostly I used it for budgeting, game playing, and a little bit of word processing. Heavier stuff is done either before or after work, or at the library, or on my friend's laptop when I manage to pry it out of his hands. So now I'm looking for a new computer. Suggestions anyone? I'm going to be checking out Consumer Reports, but personal recommendations are good, too :)

Comments

Re: Play a funeral dirge...

[rosario001.livejournal.com]

10 years? LOL, I had one from 1994 until a couple of years ago. Will you be able to salvage what was in the hard drive?

Re: Play a funeral dirge...

[jmc-bks.livejournal.com]

I don't know. I'll ask my brother. Really, the only truly important thing on the hard drive (to me, at least) was my certification paper from law school and its multiple drafts. Will I ever do anything with it? No. Is it pretty much irrelevant, given the changes in immigration law and policy in the past few years? Yes, sadly. But I put a lot of effort into it, so I don't want it to disappear. Otherwise, I only care that no one is able to retrieve the financial info from my budget.