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

[dmmug@dmmug.org]

In TV we call this "impact maintenance."
> 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
> 
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