On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Richard Erlacher wrote:
> Actually, I use Windows 30+ hours per day (# of machines * # of hours)
> or, if you like, nearly every waking minute, and have more trouble
> with disk subsystem failures on the Apples in the typical half-hour
> session than I have with the Windows boxesin any given month. Now,
> I'm only using three Apples at the moment, but on any given day, I
> have more data losses than I can remember having over the entire 20+
> years I have been using CP/M. These Apple machines (][+, IIe, //c)
> happily intechange media, so whatever, if anything, is wrong with them
> is common to them all. They behave pretty much as I remember all
> Apples doing, even back in the '80's when folks willingly tolerated
> such behavior, which clearly reminds me of why I never liked them.
Give me your address. I'll send you a head cleaning kit. You should also
install air filters in your building where the Apples are housed, and it
would help to stop digging up dirt near them if you're doing so.
> As I said in a previous email, I'm planning to chuck the things in
> order to get them off the market, and my drive a truck over them just
> to protect the public, as soon as I'm done recovering the source files
> and doc I've so far been unable to recover. (Today was one of the
> days on which I renewed this frustrating experience, BTW.)
If you send them to me I can probably do it quicker.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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