*pokes Manifest Destiny with a stick*

[Ender]

Is it dead?

[Ted]

I haven't seen Mark on the board since December.

[Stravo]

Mark has been around, I spoke to him a while ago and he promised me that he would not disappear without telling us more of his wonderful tale. But RL has caught up to him and he's having some computer issues. be patient. All will be well.

[Mark S]

Yes, as Stravo says, my computer is in intensive care fighting for its life. It may just be that the only copy of Manifest Destiny is now on the net. Even so, I've been jotting things down the old fashioned way and will get back to the story when I can. I really can't post a ten pager from my work. I don't think it would go over well.

[Hendrake]

Whoa!! It lives!

As long as I know it isn't dead, I'm prepared to wait all the time necessary.

[Ender]

Yes, as Stravo says, my computer is in intensive care fighting for its life. It may just be that the only copy of Manifest Destiny is now on the net. Even so, I've been jotting things down the old fashioned way and will get back to the story when I can. I really can't post a ten pager from my work. I don't think it would go over well.

If you email it to me I could post it, or send it to stravo and he could put it in the cleaned thread.

[Mark S]

Friends and neighbours, it looks like the worst has happened. The motherboard on my laptop appears to be fried and they don't make the model anymore. I am now the owner of a nice, fancy paper weight. Unless I can get the contents of my hard drive out somehow, I have officially lost all of my work on Manifest Destiny (not to mention a few other things). I will continue the story when I have another computer. I'm just glad that it's at least safe on the net. If anything can truly be safe on the net.

[Dalton]

You can pull out the Laptop's HDD and transplant it, IIRC.

[Singular Quartet]

You can pull out the Laptop's HDD and transplant it, IIRC.

That won't work, becuase there are very few standards in laptops. HE would have to buy another laptop off of the same company, and hope that 1: The hard drive can come out, 2: Hope they still use the same standard. One of the main reasons I don't use laptops...

[Crayz9000]

That won't work, becuase there are very few standards in laptops. HE would have to buy another laptop off of the same company, and hope that 1: The hard drive can come out, 2: Hope they still use the same standard. One of the main reasons I don't use laptops...

I think that for IDE hard drives, you can find adapters that will allow you to plug them into a regular PC...

[Singular Quartet]

That won't work, becuase there are very few standards in laptops. HE would have to buy another laptop off of the same company, and hope that 1: The hard drive can come out, 2: Hope they still use the same standard. One of the main reasons I don't use laptops...

I think that for IDE hard drives, you can find adapters that will allow you to plug them into a regular PC...

Don't make me laugh. Laptops are desgined with the sole idea that they don't want other peoples stuff on it. It makes Microsoft look like a non-profit organization.

[Crayz9000]

I'm not saying that you can always find them, but I know that I have a 640MB hard drive with standard IDE adapter. I think IBM's drives run on a SCSI bus... but you're never going to find an adapter from the company itself. They're almost all aftermarket.

[Singular Quartet]

I'm not saying that you can always find them, but I know that I have a 640MB hard drive with standard IDE adapter. I think IBM's drives run on a SCSI bus... but you're never going to find an adapter from the company itself. They're almost all aftermarket.

Its unbeleivabley rare. I think Compaq used to use real HArd Drives for some of their older Lunch Box type Laptops, but that's as close as anybody's likely to get.