Subject: Flash and Crash
From: Christopher W. Thomas (creatician@poetic.com)
Host: 207-172-227-99.s36.as1.dnb.erols.com
Date: Thurs July 2, 1998 at 4:53PM

Flash and Crash


Down in the park
Suddenly ... dark
Thunder cracked
Lightning snapped

Clambered back into car
Dog scared, didn't go far
Rushed home just in time
To see lightning at its prime

Lit up house with bolt
Then things did revolt
Rear amp hummed loud
Burnt inside - shot now

Completely fried
I almost died ...
From the shock
Then took stock

Computer jumbled
I felt so humbled
Drive went to pieces
Serial ports useless

Had to swap board
And - oh., My Lord
What a conniption!
Got so much friction

Some RAM parity errors
(Storms are such terrors)
Had them all apart ...
Matching chips to start

Now have found four
Mismatched sizes more
But all same parity deal ...
Making forty-eight meg real

Livable - for the slower board
A 586 (short on a few straws)
Of course, it's missing those external cache chips
But at one hundred twenty megahertz - a hit

Also there's one expansion slot short
(Will have to forego tape drive bought)
And not all devices seem to be plug and play
But that's alright, because it sure saved the day ...

- Tristram

(c) Christopher W. Thomas
11:45pm Tues. June 30th, 1998

(late post due to technical problems)