30th July 2014
Dear
Cassi,
Somewhere
in the working of getting my drawing desk back I determined that I needed to
setup my old desktop computer to examine research materials when drawing. Until
now I’ve had a laptop on that desk but the thing takes so long to turn on and
turns itself off so quickly that it just wasn’t worth the work of running the
thing.
I had
tried. I had turned it on and set it to a number of tasks. One of those was an
online game I was using to keep the computer thinking that it was active. This
idea failed and the computer shut itself off and when I turned it back on it
kind of got confused.
By this I
mean that after I turned it back on it was still thinking about what it was
doing when it shut off more than half an hour after powering up. The internet
was useless. At some point I had to force shutdown the program. I’m not sure
what I’ll windup doing with the old laptop but the desktop I’ve set up cost me
eight hundred and the laptop only two so getting my money out of the desk top
is a bigger thing.
In any
case, two years of in operation had left the computer in a sorry state and it
didn’t exactly want to turn back on.
First it gave me a long beep and never connected to the screen. I had to
look this up on another computer and found that it was the ram failing to
connect to the motherboard.
After that the
computer got its legs under it the thing sat there being old and slowly getting
it mind back. Two years and the computer turned on but just looked at me so I
gave it some time.
I came to
find it had shut down and rebooted and so I gave it a defrag and compression. I
then stuck my flash drive in and set about working on the next comic. It shut
itself off, and I couldn’t get it on again.
Now I was
the one confused. I couldn’t figure this out. The computer kept telling me it
had no operating system. That was until I pulled out the flash drive and it
started right up.
Computers
are hard,
Richard
Leland Neal
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