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by Bryan Bytehead on Tue Sep 09, 2003 at 11:53:42 AM PDT

I used to do Training and Support for Radio Shack 13+ years ago. The standard answer to anything that anybody was running under TRS-Xenix 16 on the TRS-80 Model 16 was to backup the data (it always fit on one 8" floppy), then wipe the hard drive and reinstall TRS-Xenix 16 (2 floppies IIRC) and the application 2 floppies at most), restore the data, and whatever weirdness was going on would disappear. It didn't take that long to format the 8meg (yes, meg) hard drive. Which was usually the problem, the HD had just run into a failing sector, so this "fixed" the problem! And we charged people $45 for that, and THEY PAID.

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