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

[Russ & Marilyn Carlson]

If location, location, location is the key to real estate and 
diversification, diversification, diversification is the key to
investments then 
saving, saving, saving is the key to preserving important data you can't
afford to lose!

Russ

jmuller38@mchsi.com wrote:
> 
> 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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