I have a Macintosh IIfx that is old enough to vote and yet still runs perfectly. But just a little while ago, we lost the hard disk in Cathy’s iMac, and this morning my own precious piece of Iridium woke up by not waking up.<\/p>\n
I saw some screen noise in my noodling about, so I’m hoping it’s a circuitry issue. That would almost certainly mean that the machine itself is slag, but, as long as the hard disk has survived, all is not lost.<\/p>\n
But still… Macs don’t fail. And two Macs don’t fail this close to each other in time.<\/p>\n
After Cathy’s machine went south, we added a 2 terrabyte backup server — even though I have never backed up a Macintosh in my life.<\/p>\n
Not the end of the world, but this is going to bite a big — and expensive — hole in my day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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