Powerbook Jokes

In 1993, sometime in December, a customer walks in with a dead PowerBook 165. Fault description: hangs on startup. An additional symptom provided was: whilst being carried from the customer's site to our service center, a' sloshing' noise was heard within the machine.

"Has anything been split on this computer?" I inquired, but no, nothing of the sort had happened, protested the client vehemently. Taking this with a grain of salt (no-one's going to admit doing something that totally invalidates their warranty and effectively wrecks their computer) I went about filling in the repair order.

Back on the bench, I started the PowerBook up. Sure enough, an address error on startup, just after' Welcome to Macintosh'. I lowered my ear to the keyboard, at which point I heard a crackling noise (couldn't hear any sloshing noise though) and became aware of a rather' sharp' odor which seemed to emanate from the inside of the machine. Flicking the computer off and more...

In 1993, sometime in December, a customer walks in with a dead PowerBook.
Fault description: hangs on startup. An additional symptom provided was: whilst being carried from the customer's site to our service center, a 'sloshing' noise was heard within the machine.
"Has anything been split on this computer?" I inquired, but no, nothing of the sort had happened, protested the client vehemently. Taking this with a grain of salt (no one's going to admit doing something that totally invalidates their warranty and effectively wrecks their computer) I went about filling in the repair order.
Back on the bench, I started the PowerBook up. Sure enough, an address error on startup, just after 'Welcome to Macintosh'. I lowered my ear to the keyboard, at which point I heard a crackling noise (couldn't hear any sloshing noise though) and became aware of a rather 'sharp' odor which seemed to emanate from the inside of the machine.
Flicking the computer off and unplugging more...

From the February issue of MacUser letters to the editor.
"I got married a couple of weeks ago and took my PowerBook 165 along (on the honeymoon) to keep up with e-mail. On the last day of the trip, I drove over my PowerBook with my father-in-laws car.
My wife put it by the front tire, and I unknowingly backed up the car over it."
(note: it survived much I am sure to his wife's disappointment.)
The Editors opined the perhaps his wife was trying to "tell him something".
I guess it would have been OK if he had brought a DuoDock instead of a PowerBook 165. ;-)
(For the PC addicted a DuoDock is a sub portable powerbook which when you want to play games and the like you insert into a slot in a Docking station to obtain a full fledged desk top station with all the bells and whistles.... I know (GROAN)