Monday, October 13, 2008

Minor Setbacks and USB Weirdness

I've had a couple of minor setbacks. One is that I have verified that the hard drive in the pile o' Freecycle stuff is indeed bad. I'll have to get a small IDE drive somewhere. PC Liquidator comes to mind (click here to go there).

The other one is that I have no keyboard or mouse that is usable with the 486. Serial mice and AT keyboards are so rare now I'll probably have to go through eBay. (Of course, I could use Freecycle, but these may just be too obscure . . .)

. . . and another thing! Twice now I've had zero USB function when I boot my computer. A simple reset brings up USB, but that's happened more than once is troubling. Plus, it looks like my mouse is going . . . it now takes 2, 3, or 4 left-clicks before the computer hears me.

More news as I discover it . . .

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