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From: rickd@hcx1.SSD.HARRIS.COM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Hard Disk Nightmares
Message-ID: <49800018@hcx1>
Date: 2 May 88 13:53:00 GMT
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Nf-From: hcx1.SSD.HARRIS.COM!rickd    May  2 09:53:00 1988


My Mac SE with hard disk has been remarkably tolerant of travel.  I use 
it as a terminal at work (with uw...great program) and as a stand-alone at 
home.  I rides with me daily to the office and back in its padded carrying 
case.

It's survived even worse:

One evening I took my wife out to dinner right after work.  Since we parked
in a questionable neighborhood, I took the Mac into the cafeteria with us.
I was wondering how to carry both the Mac and a dinner tray when I spotted
a roll-around highchair on wheels.  Baby Mac fit quite comfortably in the seat.
When we got to the end of the cafeteria line a helpful waitress volunteered 
to roll the "baby" over to the table for us.  We started out towards the table
when I heard a horrifying *THUMP* behind we.  Yes, the Mac had leapt from 
it's highchair, over three feet to the carpeted floor.  I could just imagine
the disk heads skipping across the fragile media.

It was with great trepidation that I later switched on the Mac, but
the smiley face was a cheerful as ever!