J
Jerry
windows 2000 will not boot up
M
Mark V
In said:
Sorry.
M
Mike Brown - Process Manager
Jerry said:
Yes it will.
A
Al Dunbar [MS-MVP]
Mike Brown - Process Manager said:
But if the system unit is not in its normal position, perhaps it will boot
sideways or downwards.
/Al
B
Bob I
I'm still puzzled as to what this has to do with cmdprompt?!?!? 
A
Al Dunbar [MS-MVP]
Bob I said:I'm still puzzled as to what this has to do with cmdprompt?!?!?
It has nothing to do with it, we are just having a bit of fun...
/Al
B
Bob I
Humm, do you remember harddrives where the head and arms were so heavy
that if you tipped the PC on its side it wouldn't read the harddrive
anymore?
that if you tipped the PC on its side it wouldn't read the harddrive
anymore?
I'm still puzzled as to what this has to do with cmdprompt?!?!?
It has nothing to do with it, we are just having a bit of fun...
/Al
A
Al Dunbar [MS-MVP]
Bob I said:
Yes. Fortunately, that weight was often enough to keep people from trying to
tip the computers over in the first place, for fear of injury.
a) Do you remember that some of the models spun the odd numbered platters in
the opposite direction to avoid having the chassis turn around like on those
high-powered washing machines on the spin cycle?
b) I remember even farther back to my first computer that didn't even have a
hard drive. And no floppies, either. It just had an audio! cassette tape
drive for storage.
c) And even before that, a minicomputer at work whose software was loaded by
feeding punched paper tape through a teletypewriter. But before even that
would happen, you had to play with a bank of toggle switches on the console
to key in a short bootstrap program that would load the rest of the loader
from the paper tape.
Anyone care to guess which of the above are true and which are false?
/Al
Al said:I'm still puzzled as to what this has to do with cmdprompt?!?!?
It has nothing to do with it, we are just having a bit of fun...
/Al
J
Jerold Schulman
Only a is false.
Jerold Schulman
Windows: General MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com
Bob I said:
Yes. Fortunately, that weight was often enough to keep people from trying to
tip the computers over in the first place, for fear of injury.
a) Do you remember that some of the models spun the odd numbered platters in
the opposite direction to avoid having the chassis turn around like on those
high-powered washing machines on the spin cycle?
b) I remember even farther back to my first computer that didn't even have a
hard drive. And no floppies, either. It just had an audio! cassette tape
drive for storage.
c) And even before that, a minicomputer at work whose software was loaded by
feeding punched paper tape through a teletypewriter. But before even that
would happen, you had to play with a bank of toggle switches on the console
to key in a short bootstrap program that would load the rest of the loader
from the paper tape.
Anyone care to guess which of the above are true and which are false?
/Al
Al said:I'm still puzzled as to what this has to do with cmdprompt?!?!?
It has nothing to do with it, we are just having a bit of fun...
/Al
Al Dunbar [MS-MVP] wrote:
"Mike Brown - Process Manager"
<[email protected]>
wrote in message
windows 2000 will not boot up
Yes it will.
But if the system unit is not in its normal position, perhaps it will
boot
sideways or downwards.
/Al
Jerold Schulman
Windows: General MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com
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Matthias Tacke
a) is a nice idea, but AFAIK only realized with helicoptersAl Dunbar said:Bob I said:
Yes. Fortunately, that weight was often enough to keep people from trying to
tip the computers over in the first place, for fear of injury.
a) Do you remember that some of the models spun the odd numbered platters in
the opposite direction to avoid having the chassis turn around like on those
high-powered washing machines on the spin cycle?
b) I remember even farther back to my first computer that didn't even have a
hard drive. And no floppies, either. It just had an audio! cassette tape
drive for storage.
c) And even before that, a minicomputer at work whose software was loaded by
feeding punched paper tape through a teletypewriter. But before even that
would happen, you had to play with a bank of toggle switches on the console
to key in a short bootstrap program that would load the rest of the loader
from the paper tape.
Anyone care to guess which of the above are true and which are false?
/Al
Al said:I'm still puzzled as to what this has to do with cmdprompt?!?!?
It has nothing to do with it, we are just having a bit of fun...
/Al
Al Dunbar [MS-MVP] wrote:
"Mike Brown - Process Manager"
<[email protected]>
wrote in message
windows 2000 will not boot up
Yes it will.
But if the system unit is not in its normal position, perhaps it will
boot
sideways or downwards.
/Al
b) & c) done myself
B
Bob I
B and C.(true) been there done that. Now "A" on the other hand wouldn't
make sense from a physics standpoint as the "rotational effect" would
only be present during initial power on.
make sense from a physics standpoint as the "rotational effect" would
only be present during initial power on.
Yes. Fortunately, that weight was often enough to keep people from trying to
tip the computers over in the first place, for fear of injury.
a) Do you remember that some of the models spun the odd numbered platters in
the opposite direction to avoid having the chassis turn around like on those
high-powered washing machines on the spin cycle?
b) I remember even farther back to my first computer that didn't even have a
hard drive. And no floppies, either. It just had an audio! cassette tape
drive for storage.
c) And even before that, a minicomputer at work whose software was loaded by
feeding punched paper tape through a teletypewriter. But before even that
would happen, you had to play with a bank of toggle switches on the console
to key in a short bootstrap program that would load the rest of the loader
from the paper tape.
Anyone care to guess which of the above are true and which are false?
/Al
Al Dunbar [MS-MVP] wrote:
I'm still puzzled as to what this has to do with cmdprompt?!?!?
It has nothing to do with it, we are just having a bit of fun...
/Al
Al Dunbar [MS-MVP] wrote:
"Mike Brown - Process Manager"
<[email protected]>
wrote in message
windows 2000 will not boot up
Yes it will.
But if the system unit is not in its normal position, perhaps it will
boot
sideways or downwards.
/Al
M
Mike Brown - Process Manager
Bob I said:
or if your blue jeans are all on one side of the platter.
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Al Dunbar [MS-MVP]
LOL, all. I will think twice before trying to pull one over on this crowd
again!
/Al
again!
/Al