I have the 4th edition (2000) of Ted Landau's "Sad Macs, Bombs, and 
other Disasters", the best known troubleshooting guide for pre-OS X 
Apple Macs (955 pages). I no longer need it so if anyone wants it for 
free (or for the cost of p&p if not collected from Edinburgh) contact me 
on zhivago at sluiman dot eu.

"Hans Sluiman" <not@this.address> wrote in message 
news:3%OJk.72834$E41.17943@text.news.virginmedia.com...
>I have the 4th edition (2000) of Ted Landau's "Sad Macs, Bombs, and other 
>Disasters", the best known troubleshooting guide for pre-OS X Apple Macs 
>(955 pages). I no longer need it so if anyone wants it for free (or for the 
>cost of p&p if not collected from Edinburgh) contact me on zhivago at 
>sluiman dot eu.

I thought Macs "just worked"? :-)

Z

On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:06:59 +0100, "Zimmy" <x@y.z> somehow managed to
impart:

>
>"Hans Sluiman" <not@this.address> wrote in message 
>news:3%OJk.72834$E41.17943@text.news.virginmedia.com...
>>I have the 4th edition (2000) of Ted Landau's "Sad Macs, Bombs, and other 
>>Disasters", the best known troubleshooting guide for pre-OS X Apple Macs 
>>(955 pages). I no longer need it so if anyone wants it for free (or for the 
>>cost of p&p if not collected from Edinburgh) contact me on zhivago at 
>>sluiman dot eu.
>
>I thought Macs "just worked"? :-)
>
>Z 
>
Have you not heard of 'the spinning beachball of death'?

I recently took a rucksack load of old computer books to the
paperbank. Computer books certainly age quickly, don't they? I've hung
onto my DOS 5.0 manual, though, just in case...

Dave.
<http://www.henniker.org.uk> 3300 photos especially
Edinburgh & Scotland. + 3D rendered art, old ads etc.
Délété david for email; watch the spam filters.

Dave wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:06:59 +0100, "Zimmy" <x@y.z> somehow managed to
> impart:
> 
>> "Hans Sluiman" <not@this.address> wrote in message 
>> news:3%OJk.72834$E41.17943@text.news.virginmedia.com...
>>> I have the 4th edition (2000) of Ted Landau's "Sad Macs, Bombs, and other 
>>> Disasters", the best known troubleshooting guide for pre-OS X Apple Macs 
>>> (955 pages). I no longer need it so if anyone wants it for free (or for the 
>>> cost of p&p if not collected from Edinburgh) contact me on zhivago at 
>>> sluiman dot eu.
>> I thought Macs "just worked"? :-)
>>
>> Z 
>>
> Have you not heard of 'the spinning beachball of death'?
> 
> I recently took a rucksack load of old computer books to the
> paperbank. Computer books certainly age quickly, don't they? I've hung
> onto my DOS 5.0 manual, though, just in case...
> 
> Dave.
> <http://www.henniker.org.uk> 3300 photos especially
> Edinburgh & Scotland. + 3D rendered art, old ads etc.
> Délété david for email; watch the spam filters.

This "Sad Macs" volume deals exclusively with pre-OS X systems which 
were known to have some stability and other issues, so having a 
troubleshooting guide like this at hand was definitely useful. Mac OS X 
is a massive improvement, especially the latest incarnations (Tiger, 
Leopard), but this book may still be useful to those few who run OS 9 
apps either natively or in Classic. Anyway, if nobody wants it within 
the next few days it goes to the paperbank.

Hans

In article , dave@dªv¡
dhenniker.org.uk says...
> On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:06:59 퍝, "Zimmy" <x@y.z> somehow managed to
> impart:
> 
> >
> >"Hans Sluiman" <not@this.address> wrote in message 
> >news:3%OJk.72834$E41.17943@text.news.virginmedia.com...
> >>I have the 4th edition (2000) of Ted Landau's "Sad Macs, Bombs, and other 
> >>Disasters", the best known troubleshooting guide for pre-OS X Apple Macs 
> >>(955 pages). I no longer need it so if anyone wants it for free (or for the 
> >>cost of p&p if not collected from Edinburgh) contact me on zhivago at 
> >>sluiman dot eu.
> >
> >I thought Macs "just worked"? :-)
> >
> >Z 
> >
> Have you not heard of 'the spinning beachball of death'?
> 
> I recently took a rucksack load of old computer books to the
> paperbank. Computer books certainly age quickly, don't they? I've hung
> onto my DOS 5.0 manual, though, just in case...
> 
> Dave.
> <http://www.henniker.org.uk> 3300 photos especially
> Edinburgh & Scotland.  3D rendered art, old ads etc.
> Délété david for email; watch the spam filters.
> 

I've got some old manuals as well (C, Visual Basic, Access) which I'm 
reluctant to throw out; however I can find the solution to most problems by a 
bit of careful Googling. I should just bite the bullet and free up some shelf 
space...

-- 
Halmyre

That's you that is.

Hans Sluiman wrote:

> This "Sad Macs" volume deals exclusively with pre-OS X systems which were 
> known to have some stability and other issues ... this book may still be
> useful to those few who run OS 9 apps either natively or in Classic.
> Anyway, if nobody wants it within the next few days it goes to the 
> paperbank.

Thanks for the reminder, Hans.  My OS 9.2.2 Powermac is generally good but 
has been freezing with maddening regularity.  Usually it's when I've done 
something half-decent in Photoshop and forgotten to hit Command-S after 
every single operation.  I'd be happy to become the new custodian of your 
book.

Becky

arellcat wrote:
> Hans Sluiman wrote:
> 
>> This "Sad Macs" volume deals exclusively with pre-OS X systems which were 
>> known to have some stability and other issues ... this book may still be
>> useful to those few who run OS 9 apps either natively or in Classic.
>> Anyway, if nobody wants it within the next few days it goes to the 
>> paperbank.
> 
> Thanks for the reminder, Hans.  My OS 9.2.2 Powermac is generally good but 
> has been freezing with maddening regularity.  Usually it's when I've done 
> something half-decent in Photoshop and forgotten to hit Command-S after 
> every single operation.  I'd be happy to become the new custodian of your 
> book.
> 
> Becky 
> 
> 

I no longer have it, it was collected yesterday...

Hans