Monday, January 14, 2002
Once. Long ago. Before the Halcyon days of guis, install wizards and pre-formatted diskettes. In the wee hours of the morning on which I was to submit my first take-home law school exam (Crim Law, Meir Dan-Cohen). After mainlining the then de rigeur Thursday night line-up: Cheers, Night Court, LA Law. Instead of formatting "drive a:," I formatted "drive c:" ... The happy ending? Somehow I reinstalled DOS, and a creaky old version of WordPerfect (5.0?), and wrote the exam - and aced the class. The sad footnote? The hard drive in question may - formerly - have contained a smattering of my budding author father's fledgling efforts. (I will certainly understand if you find yourself so moved by this anecdote that you feel you must buy Mel's book.)
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