[Ti] Powerbook thieving

[Dr. Trevor J. Hutley]

At 11:44 -0400 20/4/04, brian s wrote:
>I have been away for six months (at least). Nice to see a lot of the 
>familiar folks still here.

flipper - welcome back.  It has been awfully quiet without you.....

>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.")
>
>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.

what a story.

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

you could presumably get a FW or USB CD drive ?

>My new job (private Co. in Computer Sciences up at Syracuse U.), is 
>all on Win98 IBM boxes. Good gawd.

That must seem like you went back in a Time Machine !

>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.

Looking forward to your contributions and comments, as you get DSL....

Trevor