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On 15/11/2011 6:47 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:59:18 -0500, X `
wrote:

On 11/15/11 6:36 PM, North Star wrote:
On Nov 15, 4:45 pm, X ` wrote:
One of the hard drives on one of my aging Apple computers has been dying
for a couple of weeks. It finally gave up the ghost yesterday. Called
Apple Care and the tech suggested about four different ways to try to
resuscitate it, to no avail.

So he made an appointment for me at the local Apple store. I showed up,
tech said "go to lunch." Came back 90 minutes later, new hard drive in
machine, running diagnostics.

No charge for labor or parts.

Love it.

Wow! just how old is that computer and was it still under warranty?

Two years next month. When I bought it, I paid about $100 for a three
year extended warranty. It's really nice...if I have a problem, I call
Apple Care on the phone and usually the English speaking person who
answers can work out the difficulty with me doing what is suggested. If
not, the rep makes an appointment for me at the local store.

I just reinstalled my apps and data back on the machine from a backup.

Since most hard drives are warranted for 5 years by the manufacturer
these days that seems like a great deal for Apple. Most computer
problems are caused by bad hard drives. That has been true for a long
time, pretty much since the end of the card reader and open reel tape
drive.

No one will ever miss the cards and open reels.

In fact, a IBM keypunch with Fortran was my first computer experience in
high school. Always made sure my cards were at the top of the deck so
when the deck was aborted for errors, it might have finished your work
first. There were always a few who couldn't code. No logic.

But in college, got a hold of a PET 2000, and after that I knew the
future was a microprocessor and only worked non-micros based systems if
I had to in order to accomplish something. But did port a lot of Modula
and Cobol to C.

Yep, I have been involved with ditching many a mainframes, at least
dozen high end ones at the time.
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