Posted by A. Bohemian on September 07, 2007 at 12:05:57 from (207.170.88.52):
I spent the morning getting the Super C ready for fall; pulled the bedders, checked the tires and fluids, etc. This afternoon I plan to run the Rotocycle through the garden and the bit between the orchard and the highway.
Working on Model C always brings up the contrast between the user serviceability of an older vehicle, and the lack thereof in my Apple computer.
This is an especially stark contrast right now, as the CD drive has had a hardware failure and I can't eject the disk.
In an older IBM machine, I might have replaced the drive myself, allowing me to carefully retrieve the disk, but nowadays Apples are put together like fragile puzzles, with lots of proprietary hardware junk. There isn't enough room inside the cabinet for proper air circulation (which I believe accounts for much of the high level of hardware failures in these machines), much less for someone with bad eyesight to use a nutdriver.
The fact that a tech will probably have to pull the old drive means there is a good chance the disk will be lost somewhere along the way.
Unfortunately it is a semi-rare one which has many of my favorites on it, including Harry Reser's version of "Ukelele Lady," the Johnny Marvin version of "Happy Days are Here Again, and Jolson's "When the Red, Red Robbin..."
(I know, I know, I'm only forty-seven and those are some seriously old tunes.
But I AM a jazz musician, and I have to get my riffs from SOMEWHERE. If you're going to steal, you might as well do it from people who have been dead so long maybe no one will notice...)
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