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precisely what I thought it was Wednesday, August 28 2002
This afternoon I had my most straight forward housecall to date. The problem was precisely what I thought it was, a malfunctioning IDE ribbon cable connecting the hard drive to the motherboard. The client was Betty, the mother of Anna and David the Rabbi, who is in the final preparation stages for her massive manuscript about dwarfism, so I only charged her $20. She told me that the fine folks at Gateway had replaced her motherboard at least four times. This gave me the impression that the diagnostic work done by Gateway technicians is superficial at best. Do they even consider the quasi-unreliability of IDE ribbon cables? One day we'll all be using serial IDE, but in the meantime (and with the help of the persistence of Windows ME), there will be plenty of computers requiring my services.
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