I was recently at a client who needed me to copy a file from her old PC hard drive -- which was sitting on a shelf, per my suggestion, for a rainy day such as this. The only problem was is that I had accidentally forgotten the IDE->USB cable -- rare, but it happens. I was all set to go back to ...
Not the most polite way to leave a client
Today I saw a client in Douglaston, which is in on the eastern border of Queens, about a half hour out of Manhattan on the LIRR. I rarely leave Manhattan to see clients, but this client needed ACT contacts migrated from her desktop PC to Entourage on her Mac, as well as bringing in her AOL contacts, ...
Disks as Dolls
Well, for the time being this is going to me my retro computing blog, because that's been what I've been putting a chunk of my spare time into lately. This all started with my desire to preserve my Apple II 5.25" floppy disks. The short answer there: to my surprise and delight, they're fine. Most ...
my BlackBerry, she is broken
One thing I like about my job is that I get to see weird problems that never even entered my imagination. Sometimes it takes a while to diagnose some issues just because the cause is so unlikely that I unconsciously dismiss it, and it's only after circling back that I identify it. Well, now it's ...
Floppy Disk Archeology
I’ve got a box, filled with 5.25″ floppy disks. (If you’re too young to know what those are, ask your dad.) I mean, there are probably 300 in there. Most of them are for the Apple II computer, which is what I primarily used from 1978 through 1990, and which, despite being an Apple, is not in any way ...