And if it's corrupted, you're out of luck. Bill Snyder at PC World magazine. The flaw in the floppy disk controller chip used in the Toshiba's was first documented 12 years ago by an IBM engineer named Phil Adams, who's waged a campaign to alert the industry to the problem, which can possibly occur in computers made by a variety of manufacturers. An update on the crash of an EgyptAir 767 that plummeted into the Atlantic with 217 people aboard while on a flight from New York to Cairo. The U.S. Coast Guard this afternoon officially ended its search for survivors as crews turned their attention to recovering bodies and salvage.
Officials say a signal has been detected possibly from the plane's data or cockpit voice recorder.
Late last week, it emerged that Boeing had failed to furnish a four-volume report into the risk of center fuel tank explosions in several of its aircraft models to those investigating the 1996 crash of a 747 off of Long Island. Boeing shares fell three percent today. The revamped, new for 1999 Dow Jones Industrial Average began trading today, less than a week after its owners, the publishing company Dow Jones added Microsoft, Intel, Home Depot and the phone company SBC Communications to the index of the stocks of 30 companies. The index lost 0.75 percent today on a drop of 81 points. It was not a particular banner day for any of those newcomers.