[GLLUG] Socket A CPU
Ben Pfaff
blp@cs.stanford.edu
01 Aug 2002 19:02:32 -0700
Edward Glowacki <glowack2@msu.edu> writes:
> Thanks to all of you that offered to share your hardware with
> me for testing. I ended up working with Jeff Utter, and within
> about 5 minutes (including disassembling everything) we
> determined that my CPU was fried. We were just starting to
> test his Duron 700 in my motherboard when magically a
> Thunderbird 950 appeared. It came in the doorway and landed
> softly in Jeff's hand. Literally. Through the most impressive
> timing I've ever seen, one of Jeff's friends dropped by at
> exactly that moment with his old CPU (having just upgraded).
That's wonderful. The only episode I have that comes close was
back when I was living in the dorms at MSU. Some guy from down
the call walks into my room when I'm working on something at the
computer. He asks if I know where he can get an Ethernet card to
swap for his, to see whether the problem is his card or his
computer or whatever. I absentmindedly muttered "sure" and,
without looking away from the screen, opened up a desk drawer and
pulled out a PCI Ethernet card in an anti-static bag and handed
it to him. His eyes just about bugged out of his head...
--
"...dans ce pays-ci il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral
pour encourager les autres."
--Voltaire, _Candide_