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Hardware failure - a backup plan
I began with my oldest desktop, a P133 that still had a 5.25 inch floppy disk. I turned it on and there was a small 'pop', followed by the sickly smell of burnt plastic. The power supply fried.
The next one was a P4 ... maybe a 533? It powered up but would not boot. The CD drive would not boot. The floppy did not turn. The Zip disk turned but would not boot. The hard drive won't boot. The hard drive controller, cables .. I gave up and retired the computer (took out the zip disk and the CD)
The last one is a Celeron. It powers up but the boot sector on the hard disk is gone. I finally got it to run from DOS 7, from a floppy diskette. It's not perfect, but I can use the PLC programming software and the laptop with an external monitor.
Now to get back to the project ....
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