Pre-PC computing

As I was cleaning out the garage, I ran across this old book. I think it was an English book—now why would I keep an English textbook. Anyway, I noticed the advertisement for Pickett slide rules and remembered that there were two camps for slide rules, just like Mac vs. PC. Pickett’s were […]

Disaster recovery

Now here’s a tale of woe that actually turned out OK, but there were a few tense moments.

My computer (a Mac Pro) has a 1 TB boot disk and was about 75% utilized. I had a backup strategy that had been partially tested, but I’d never had to use it in a recovery […]

Initiating a chain reaction

We replaced our battle-scarred garage doors with new roll-up doors, but of course, that required me to move things out of the way so the installer could work. We’ve collected so much stuff over the years that half the garage is used for storage. I can’t remember when we last parked two cars in the […]