Candorville by Darrin Bell

Candorville

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  1. Sportymonk

    Sportymonk said, 3 months ago

    I know the felling. I lost my beloved Sept 17, 2003 (the day the came out) 15" aluminum Powerbook on Jan 2, 2011. Simply wouldn’t come on. No parts available anymore, too old. BTW my son’s April 2003 Snowball iMAc (shown in the cartoon) is sitting next to me running fine if slowly). Currently on my 27"iMac

  2. Michael Farren

    Michael Farren said, 3 months ago

    My original IBM PC, as of five years ago, was still going strong, running old word-processing software (I doubt it could handle anything new). Yeah, it was old and very, very tired, but it still worked. BTW, “original” means just that – two 5" floppies, add-on BIG 30MB hard drive. Bought it when it was first introduced, gave it to a friend ten years later, she gave it a friend of hers a decade after that. About 30 years old, now.

  3. saywhatwhat

    saywhatwhat said, 3 months ago

    …have we all made a recent backup of important files?

  4. ne7minder55

    ne7minder55 said, 3 months ago

    @saywhatwhat

    b a c k u p? whats that?

  5. griffon88

    griffon88 said, 3 months ago

    I once had a hard drive die less than half an hour after backing it up for the first time in 10 days.
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    There are two kinds of people in the world: those who make regular backups, and those who will be.

  6. Jspine

    Jspine said, 3 months ago

    Can you back up an iPad?

  7. Potrzebie

    Potrzebie said, 3 months ago

    I lost my 3 yr old pc back in January. The drive has a corrupted partition. After many attempts at de-bugging and even adding a new drive, I had to get a whole new rig and now I need to shell out a lot of moola for disk-recovery software.

  8. Habogee

    Habogee said, 3 months ago

    Just fired up my Apple IIgs yesterday. Still works perfectly.
    And, yes Jspine, you can backup your iPad. It was part of your startup process. Check your iCloud.

  9. echoraven

    echoraven said, 3 months ago

    My original G5 Powermac died after 10 years of service.

  10. Zuhlamon

    Zuhlamon said, 3 months ago

    Geek joke: Why do RSTS (ok, PDP-11* 16-bit platforms) programmers confuse Christmas with Halloween?
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    ’cause Dec 25 = Oct 31…

  11. LemonGrinder

    LemonGrinder said, 3 months ago

    Using a Compaq from 2002 to read these. Still humming as smoothly as ever.

  12. MichaelMcKLA

    MichaelMcKLA said, 3 months ago

    Hmmm. Maybe he will get an iPad.

  13. Gee Man

    Gee Man said, 3 months ago

    Still have my first Mac, a Classic, and it still works, boots to a working desktop in 30 seconds. Not bad for 23 year-old tech.

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