At 19:04 -0500 on 14/08/02, Allen Davis wrote:

>I used to be like him. I still have an entire 8-foot tall bookcase
>packed with nothing but Mac books. Alas, most of them now are quite
>dated. Macintosh Bible, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th Editions; Dr. Macintosh by
>Bob Levitus; The Complete Macintosh; MacWorld's Mac Secrets, 5th Edition
>by Pogue and Shorr; MacWorld Complete Mac Handbook + Interactive CD, 3rd
>Edition, by Jim Heid. The list could go on for a long time. Plus all the
>third-party User Manuals for Photoshop, Freehand, Illustrator, etc. It's

That's probably a far more useful library than what you could put together now
:)

>I also have a giant box of seemingly dead hard drives I've never been
>able to toss out. I'm going to give the freezer trick a tryout. The
>logic seems sound. I have heard of stranger things that worked in a pinch!

Give 'em a whack with the heel of your hand, too.  Stiction might be part of
the problem (and it seems to me like freezing the drive would make this
*worse*, not better).
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