U.S.: Computer woes

Folks, it looks like my trusty and true iBook is dying,hard disk failure. I've spent much of today trying to get Baby up and running without luck. Ran Norton Disk Doctor, and that made Baby burp big time. Next thing I know, I've got /etc/master.psswd: not a directory.

I'm praying that Baby recovers miraculously cuz right now I can neither afford to fix Baby or to get a new baby, especially since the month-long job hunt is not going very well.

Right now, I'm running OS 9.2 since OS 10.3 isn't coming up. I've already had problems with 9.2; so, who knows how long this bad boy will continue running. Anyway, I'll blog as I can. Gotta go find a browser to work with 9.2.

Apart from not browsing, I'm not able to do mail. How come not? Well, since I was using OS 10.3, I'd trashed the Classic Mac programs like Eudora and IE. Safari only works in 10.2, so here I am stuck with OS 9.2 and lost without all my files. I should have mail up and running by tomorrow, please God.