[DM-MUG] Fwd: [MacLaw] Why I use a Mac

[Ruth M.F. Tucker]

Love this "fix".  We had an old TV that we used for years after it should
have failed using the same technique.  Worked everytime.


Ruth
-- "There's a crack in everything and that's how the light gets in."
--Leonard Cohen


> From: Darcy Baston <darcyb@spymac.com>
> Reply-To: dmmug@dmmug.org
> Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 09:51:25 -0600
> To: dmmug@dmmug.org
> Subject: Re: [DM-MUG] Fwd: [MacLaw] Why I use a Mac
>. . . . . . . . . 
> I had to service a 1986 clone computer with a 10MB hard drive in it. It
> had worked fine for 6 years, and when it began failing, some tech
> person told the owner they had a virus and it was killing the drive. I
> knew that was BS, and told the people that the next time the computer
> wouldn't boot, slap the top of the computer with some enthusiasm. It
> worked every time. I wanted them to do that to show that those old
> drives, that weren't as air tight as the ones today, eventually got
> "sticky". They just ditched the old 1986 computer, but it's a good
> point that even in 1992, people were already blaming hardware failures
> on virii.
> 
> warm wishes,
> Darcy