I have to pipe in on this one! the pickle wrote: > > 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 > :)
The listing I posted above just scratches the surface. I used to be FANATICAL about buying Mac books. I've tapered off quite a bit in the last few years -- much to my dismay. I should've kept it up. It's the main reason I'm "behind the curve" on so much of the newer stuff. > > >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). I tried the freezer trick on an ancient 80MB HD that used to reside in an SE-30 I had years ago. Lo & behold! I managed to retrieve every file on it! They now reside safely on a CD-RW! My wife keeps our deep-freezer so full that I'll only have room for 2 drives at a time, but I intend to try it on every HD in my "dead box." Lemme say, too, that I was totally freaked out by the files I did retrieve! Jeez! 1989, 1990, 1991!!! I was going through a divorce and some really traumatic emotional upheavals in '91, and I kept a daily journal on that disk. Recovering it and re-reading it opened some big windows into what kind of condition my head was in back in those days. I used to think it was such an ordeal raising three small children all by myself. Today, I feel it was a blessing. I'm so happy to have that journal back, even if I did have a screwed-up perspective on my own life at the time! I'm scared of simply "whacking" a hard disk. Something ingrained from the early '80s about not exposing them to violence I suppose. Allen ----- -- Quadlist is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Quadlist info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/quadlist.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/quadlist%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
