[Ti] Powerbook thieving

[Sam Hotchkiss]

On 4/20/04 9:44 AM, "brian s" <fl1pper at earthlink.net> wrote:

> I have been away for six months (at least). Nice to see a lot of the familiar
> folks still here.

Welcome back, flipper-- I was just wondering where you'd gone the other day
:)

> I just started working again after a 10-month interruption,
> punctuated by an attempted theft of my old 667 Ti-Book, in NYC. Fortunately,
> the guy ran up a 'down' escalator in Penn Station (As Det. Briscoe would say,
> "I love it when they're stupid.")

Heheheh

> 
> Unfortunately, my carrying bag was open at the time, and the Powerbook took a
> 15-foot fall into a planter box, where a support stick (or somesuch unfamiliar
> gardening-related item) went up inside the Combo drive, destroying it for
> good. The odds on that were long, to say the least, but I still have the Book,
> and despite the lack of a CD/DVD drive, (and my fried firewire port due to
> power hitting the data lines a while back)... I still love it.

Whoa...  Your 'book survived a 15 foot fall culminating in the combo drive
being skewered?

Whoa.

> 
> I am, however, cut off from all my external drives, CDs (many hundreds), etc.
> Bummer.

Yikes.  Time to get a firewire PC card (I think you can get them for $40
now)

> 
> My new job (private Co. in Computer Sciences up at Syracuse U.), is all on
> Win98 IBM boxes. Good gawd. But, I am (at least partially) 'back'. Will have a
> dsl at the barn within 10 days, and I'm really looking forward to reading this
> list on a regular basis again. It is great to know that everyone's still at
> it.

Win 98?  Yowch!  Congrats on the DSL!  It just became available at my house,
a couple weeks ago, and I had ordered it within an hour of the box being
ready :)

> 
> I set my 667 down for ten seconds... s**t happens fast.

Indeed.
-- 
Samuel W. Hotchkiss
hotch at zlit.net

Laptop History: PB 145, PB 520c, PB 3400c, 400mhz Pismo, 400mhz TiBook,
667mhz TiBook (rev b), 1ghz TiBook