--- nhj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> No shame yet ... the pile is still sitting here and
> one PW is still plugging
> away at its assigned duties. A PTP is also
> functional, but in the back room
> with cover off and scsi drive connected but hanging
> outside. The others have
> various lightning symptoms: non working ethernet
> ports and intermittent
> weirdness when I try to turn them on.
> I have been instructed to discard them, but can't
> bring myself to do that.
> I suppose I could try clean installs of operating
> systems and try pci
> ethernet cards to see if they'd work ... where's the
> time?
> I imagine they'll be sitting there for another year
> or two, then I can write
> to the powercomputing list and get chastized again
> for considering getting
> rid of them.
Computers stuck by lightning...I didn't think you
could do anything with that.
I don't think it would be unreasonable to break down
heavily damaged computers for parts.
Hopefully recycle parts which are damaged beyond
repair.
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