On 2002-01-24 8:46, "David Mantripp" <d.mantripp_at_fantastic.com> wrote:
> carefully ? :-)
You mean I shouldn't do it this way (from an October 30, 1998 usenet posting
of mine):
About a month ago my wife drove home, pulled the car into the garage, opened
the trunk and pulled out her briefcase, laptop and another black sports bag.
She came into the house with her hands full and closed the garage door.
On my way out to a Mac user group meeting I opened the garage door, hopped
in the car and started to slowly back out. CRUNCH! I stopped immediately. At
first I thought it was my daughter's bicycle. Nope. Then I looked under the
car and saw a black bag. I went into the house and said to my wife, "I hope
I didn't just back over your laptop." It was a Dell PC so no great loss
except for the data. But, there at my feet, leaning against the wall was the
bag for the laptop. I could tell from the worried look on my wife's face,
that something far worse might have happened.
We went out to the garage, I pulled the car forward, and pulled the bag out.
It was one of those long, rectangular shaped bags with pockets on the end.
Only one end of the bag was partially run over. The rest of the bag was
between the wheels.
We opened the pocket and pulled out my wife's upgraded Newton 2000. It was
sitting vertically in the pocket of the bag so the tire had crushed it
lengthwise along the case. The IR port was shattered, the case was
shattered, sprung open and bent a few degrees. The screen was shattered and
turning black. The battery compartment was broken, but the NiMH battery was
intact. The 8 MB memory card in one port was OK. The logic board inside
seemed very slightly bent. The stylus survived. Bits of plastic were falling
off all over the floor.
It wouldn't turn on.
<snip rest about Apple repair>
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