I’d like to thank Mr. Gadgets, a Ph.D holder in communication research, for tinkering with the computer and making the alarm stop; for thirty minutes; Mr. Computer Doctor for “erasing” (rubbing the memory card with a Mongol pencil eraser) and discovering that the blaring siren- could be temporarily shut down from this model by pressing F1 and F8 and I could use it in that mode but we weren’t comfortable with that; and finally, the Geekest of Geeks of U.P., the computer scientists of Dilnet, for taking a look at the computer and for all of them giving the same diagnosis, and for being certain (and correct, as shown later); it was hardware and not software, moisture in the memory card, problem with the contact, or if not those, a factory defect; and then back to Mr. Computer Doctor who this time, “erased harder” (rubbed the memory card harder with a Mongol pencil eraser) since I was going to replace the two slivers if all else failed …and it worked! It really did. It was simple and explainable; you just have to be certain so you can be determined; sorry to all those whose calls i did not return, I was in a trance figuring out the gizmo, i will try to return those calls (one evening, it was that drizzly Monday, my computer released a disconcerting alarm, like the sound of a house on fire, or a car being stolen, it was loud, high- pitched, intermittent); thanks also to everybody who heard it and did not run to the fire exit but just gave their commentary; running commentaries (“hey, stop it” “what’s going on” “shut it down”).
