Word: eil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Your first instinct might be to reply with an air of moral superiority when you read such comments as, "If this were my fault in any way I'd be angry about it, but as it is, there's nothing I can do," as Andrew G. Eil 02 said in this Wednesday's Crimson. Perhaps you thought, "At least now you've learned the lesson that you need to back up all your files in the future." Don't feel guilty--even the victims of the virus must have had a fleeting thought to that effect...
...next day, Eil Visited the computer help desk in the Science Center basement and learned that his hard drive had been irreparably damaged...
...Eil's computer, like many others on the Harvard campus, was struck by the Chernobyl virus...
...They [the Science Center User Assistants] told me my hard drive was erased and that they couldn't see me until next Sunday," Eil said. "That doesn't help much...
...this were my fault in any way I'd be angryabout it, but as it is, there's nothing I can do,"Eil said...