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Tech Support Chap Solved Knotty Disk Failure Problem By Staring At The Floor

The Register, Friday, August 23rd, 2024

A tale of retro tech - have you heard of Trivector computers? - and a very troubled tech support journey

Every IT pro has a story filed away about the time they were asked to provide tech support under odd circumstances, which is why each Friday The Register brings you one such story in a fresh installment of On Call - the reader-contributed column that celebrates odd circumstances.

This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Emmett" who taught us something new by sending us a story about the time in the early 1980s when he worked on a machine made by a British company called "Trivector".

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