<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Mar 3, 2013, at 1:44 PM, Al Grappone <<a href="mailto:algrappone@comcast.net">algrappone@comcast.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; ">Slowing down, Spinning beach ball. Bought 10.5.8 install disk. Installed and installed backup TM twice. Was advised that HD was failing. Now I just want to erase the HD before I recycle. Computer over 6yrs old.</span></blockquote></div><br><div>I might be tempted to purchase a HD for it then sell it, raise some dough for whatever</div><div><br></div><div>I have 2 Minis which are 8 years old each, and a Pismo which is 14 years old, so tho parts do fail, overall these Macs have long useful lives..</div><div><br></div><div>cat</div></body></html>