1 Nov
2001
1 Nov
'01
1:16 p.m.
I'm really tired of sending things, and I've still got a few things to send to
people.
Besides, you didn't even want those Altos boxes I bought on your behalf a couple
of years back. I ended up giving them away (to Will Jennings) just to get them
out of the car. The Thrift Store didn't even want them back for free. <sigh>
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sellam Ismail" <foo(a)siconic.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 7:17 PM
Subject: Re: hard-sector 5 1/4 disk
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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