Craig White wrote:
> of course the real fix for this is to put it into an old grocery bag
> along with at least 3 chicken feathers and seal it shut. Attach a 10
> foot rope to the bag, take it out on the front yard, swing it around and
> around over your head while chanting 'Om' and it should take care of it
> (as long as you swung it at the right speed of course).
> 
> ;-)
> 
> This of course reminds me of the time when I got a phone call from a
> relatively high profile lawyer (approximately 1987) who had an Macintosh
> IICx as an AppleShare Server and his hard drive stopped functioning. Of
> course there was no backup of the hard drive and he was desparate.
> 
> On the phone, he told me of all the efforts he and some technical people
> expended to try to get the hard drive working (Norton Utils for Mac,
> etc.) and I told him that I doubted that I had any particular magic to
> perform but I would look at it with the provision that I had to leave
> town early the next morning. I told him that I would simply charge a
> flat fee of $75 and recover what I could.
> 
> I went to his house that afternoon and he had already removed the drive
> from his server. I noticed that it was a Sony 20 megabyte SCSI drive
> (somewhat typical of early Apple SCSI hard drives) and that particular
> hard drive had the reputation for sticking heads. I smacked it hard
> between my hands and suggested to him that I had already fixed it. We
> put it back into the server, turned on the power and it started up and
> ran like a champ. He wrote me a check on the spot.
> 
> Sometimes, the solutions aren't so obvious and sometimes, it's something
> really simple.

That has to be one of THE BEST computer repair stories ever!  LOL!  I
don't think I can top that one.

Alan