In deepest sympathy. Very well written obit, however. Mike On Sep 28, 2006, at 1:20 PM, Eric Hammond wrote:
> The recent death of Eric's iBook G3 800mhz is announced. Last > Wednesday, it was rushed to a local Mac guy who pronounced that the > logic board was failing or had already failed. It was the 3rd > installed on the computer. The bill to fix it was more than was > currently in the bank account of her owner and long time friend, > Eric. Desperate attempts were made to save data and to stave off the > final blows of death. But to no effect. Apple themselves were > unresponsive, claiming that "since the computer was over 3 years old > it had reached the end of its life and was not worthy of repair, but > I can give you 50 bucks off a new mac." She is survived by a iPod > shuffle, a 5G iPod and a 160 gig external hard drive. Funeral > services will be arranged as soon as the Dr. Frankinstein style > attempts of resurrection are mede from a verity or sources from ebay > to ifixit.com. As soon as the funds become available. > > A new MacBook has been delivered by the UPS man this morning making > this email possible. > > _______________________________________________ > The next Louisville Computer Society meeting is October 24. > Posting address: MacGroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup >
