Craig White wrote: > of course the real fix for this is to put it into an old grocery bag > along with at least 3 chicken feathers and seal it shut. Attach a 10 > foot rope to the bag, take it out on the front yard, swing it around and > around over your head while chanting 'Om' and it should take care of it > (as long as you swung it at the right speed of course). > > ;-) > > This of course reminds me of the time when I got a phone call from a > relatively high profile lawyer (approximately 1987) who had an Macintosh > IICx as an AppleShare Server and his hard drive stopped functioning. Of > course there was no backup of the hard drive and he was desparate. > > On the phone, he told me of all the efforts he and some technical people > expended to try to get the hard drive working (Norton Utils for Mac, > etc.) and I told him that I doubted that I had any particular magic to > perform but I would look at it with the provision that I had to leave > town early the next morning. I told him that I would simply charge a > flat fee of $75 and recover what I could. > > I went to his house that afternoon and he had already removed the drive > from his server. I noticed that it was a Sony 20 megabyte SCSI drive > (somewhat typical of early Apple SCSI hard drives) and that particular > hard drive had the reputation for sticking heads. I smacked it hard > between my hands and suggested to him that I had already fixed it. We > put it back into the server, turned on the power and it started up and > ran like a champ. He wrote me a check on the spot. > > Sometimes, the solutions aren't so obvious and sometimes, it's something > really simple.
That has to be one of THE BEST computer repair stories ever! LOL! I don't think I can top that one. Alan
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