bytebug@felix.UUCP (Roger L. Long) (04/16/87)
First, don't trust your computer with anything vitally important that can't
be done by hand, or you have paper records, or whatever...
This story begins with that warning because I did: I'm getting married, and
I had my wedding guest list and all of my financial records on my Mac, when
suddenly, this past Saturday, the famous meltdown-of-flyback-transformer
occured, leaving me with a dead Mac and not a very good idea of how much
money I had to spend on wedding preparations, much less getting it fixed.
But, what the heck... it's only money. And hey, while I have it in the
shop, why not go all the way and finally get the ROM upgrade done as well,
so that when you guys submit things that no longer run on the computer for
the rest of us, I'll be able to check them out. So I went down to a not-
really-local computer store (after my really-local-computer-store-where-I-
bought-my-Mac told me that they did all of their repairs in one store in
their chain and they had a backlog on orders for ROM upgrades of several
months), gave them my hard luck story, and gave them my piece of plastic
that I guessed might have just enough money left to cover the repair. It
did, they did, and an hour and a half later I left with my refurbished Mac
and a new system software diskette.
Of course, I didn't need their software, as I had just downloaded the
latest and greatest from CompuServe, and actually had just booted it when
the flyback decided to die. At the time, I wondered if this was a bug that
would be fixed in the next release.
Anyway, given that the big day is rapidly approaching, I balance my checkbook
(well, almost anyway...) and print out my guest list (so I can provide the
reception place a guess at how many people will be showing up), and try
running the new system software again.
Well, the bulging trash can is ugly, so you'll be sure to be seeing some
replacement icons for that in mod.mac.binaries real soon now. Also, things
that seemed to run solid before, crash right an left, so there's some work
for me to do in that area to research why.
But, you see, my future wife says no Mac on the honeymoon. And I doubt that
I will be close to a Usenet node anyway, so... you're going to have to
survive on the few things I had checked out before my Mac blew up, and then
wait for my return and getting things straightened out. There's going to be
a few days where you don't get anything.
Actually, this comes at a great time. The new newsgroups have been recently
created for moving the old mod.* groups. mod.mac.binaries is going to now
be called comp.binaries.mac. So by the time I get back, everybody should
have the new groups on their machines and I can start posting there.
And maybe I'll take the money I'm getting back from Uncle Sam and get a fan
for my Mac... You know, one of those internal jobs that comes with the
internal hard disks. Oops. Slipped out of reality again.
--
Roger L. Long
FileNet Corp
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