Re: Ticking Mac Theory #28

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From: Rob Verbrugghe
Date: Tue, 08 Nov 1988 22:02

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In article <700@tank.uchicago.edu> her3@tank.uchicago.edu.UUCP (Ben 'Drew' Herman) writes:
>In article <4308@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> zimerman@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Jacob Ben-david Zimmerman) writes:
>>Well, our Mac SE's at work only become impatient infrequently.  When
>
>Finally some one who understands the workings of a computer.  What you think
>the Mac is magic?? That some misterious magical "electrical Current"
>Draws those pretty screens on your mac???
>
>No, 
>   These "Little cuties" Live inside the Computer and run things......

Thats funny.  My mac ticks, but only when its hungry.  If the internal
disk drive is empty it nashes its teeth.  I give it a floppy to suck on
(kinda like a pacifier) and it stays quiet.  (Of course I only let it
suck on old 400K disks, I hate it when the computer teeths on my data.)

Rob
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From: g-verbru@rocky.cs.wisc.edu.CS.WISC.EDU (Rob Verbrugghe)
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