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Makuma Server Operational

I have finally got the Makuma server going again. Here's a photo of the old motherboard. You can see the chip that got burned up by lightening. I started by putting a different motherboard and RAM in the machine. It started up, but gave me a 'drive failure' message. This morning I changed out the IDE cables and the floppy disk drive and it started up. Thankfully, the hard drives were still good. I still have a couple things to tweak on it, but it's working. I was able to connect using the radio modems here in the hangar, and transferred a lot of mail that was waiting. I won't send the server out to Makuma until at least next Tuesday. The two people who would like to use it are out there, but the guy who can set it up and connect it to the network just left for Quito for the weekend. He's found some more things that were affected by the lightening strike. Once is a computer used for translation and the other is the network hub.