I'm sorry to hear of this. I was impressed by his company. I had seen and heard about Gateway 2000 computers before but my first experience with one came in 19

I'm sorry to hear of this. I was impressed by his company. I had seen and heard about Gateway 2000 computers before but my first experience with one came in 1998. I was working part time in a computer shop and they had a room full of old dead computers. I got the OK from the boss to take some scrap parts to build something for myself. I selected an old Gateway 2000 486 and brought it back to life and that was the machine that I used to learn about Linux. I was impressed at how much different(better) it was compared to the Packard Bell and Compaq computers that seemed to be everywhere at the time. I botched an attempt at a BIOS upgrade and bricked the machine. Gateway had extensive documentation and utilities available on their website. I found that there was a recovery jumper and a recovery floppy image. I downloaded the image, wrote it to floppy, set the jumper and restored the BIOS. I was a fan of Gateway 2000 from that day forward.