Where was kaimagpie when Bowie bowed out

These are parts of my new PC.
After trialing the new Windows 10 for many days I began moving and reorganizing a considerable amount of files and data onto it, intending to

ch-ch-ch-ch-changing over to it as my main PC.
Everything was hunky-dory,
though the kit was scattered, floating in the most peculiar way.
But on clumsy Sunday,
the plug on the drive broke;
its pins frayed like some spider from Mars.
Have I just seen my work of thrice months smoked?

No one would have believed, in the early years of the 21st century, that one valuable disc drive could,
could have died like this [1].
My heart in mouth if the data on it are to be missed!

On carefully making the pins align,
and shim them with the broken fragment,
the cable link was good again.
Though it grounded control of some ps2 key clicks,
as a USB tin machine, the drive was mend.
Away from steping backwards to the wardrobe I leapt.

So from being like an absolute beginner
We can be Heroes I say
by keeping the connector together
Just for one day.



KSN 2016


[1] I am befuddled why the market is so flooded with sata data cables that have the gimmicky right-angle connectors! When fitted to a drive, such cable would stick out alone and not lined up with the power cable (that are always straight) next to it, so prone to pressure pushing down on it.