Yep. Helped a co-worker who deleted all the files in the C:\ directory on Win 95 about 1997. Undeleted most files and rebooted with system disk and restored IO.SYS, etc with special command from floppy. Help desk was taking a long time to come over to fix it.
On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 7:46 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht <elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za> wrote: > Mark Regan wrote: > >>http://www.computerworld.com/article/3126852/data-center/is-this-why-mainframes-almost-never-get-rebooted.html > > Funny and plausible war story! ;-) > > It reminds me of an a$$hole who edited his autoexec.bat to contains only one > line which has the program name which he wants to run after reboot. > > Unfortunately for him that file also PREVIOUSLY contained some setup > statements for memory management, path, environment variables and other > things... > > So, reboot failed of course. Of course, I had to fix it by using a floppy to > boot with. > > ;-) > > Groete / Greetings > Elardus Engelbrecht > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
