{Computer Panic}[15th November 1990]

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Being superstitious about computers – because of the apparent irrationality in failure of these supremely logical machines – we decided not to use our faithful old Sirius (after a lapse of a couple of weeks) on the 13^th: this half or more than half in jest, I trust. Just as well! – because when we did start, on the 15^th, today, it was at once apparent that the machine had suffered a ‘major systems failure’ probably in the BOOT-ROM area,* about which I could do nothing, and on the most difficult project of the year to do manually. Just imagine how much more superstitious we should have become if we had found this out two days earlier! Tomorrow we take the whole lot to Bridgend for repair, wishing we lived nearer to civilisation.**

*or disk controller board <901117>

**{In the end we decided to buy a new one,*** which arrived with a fault.}

***[An IBM-PC compatible: farewell to CP/M (used with the Victor 9000 / ACT-Sirius 1 since 1982), hello to MS-DOS & eventually Windows]

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