I read a poem once that seems to always surface when I face computer catastrophes and need a blunt reality check.
with an Apple Macintosh
you can’t run Radio Shack programs
in its disc drive.
nor can a Commodore 64
drive read a file
you have created on an
IBM Personal Computer.
both Kaypro and Osborne computers use
the CP/M operating system
but can’t read each other’s
handwriting
for they format (write
on) discs in different
ways.
the Tandy 2000 runs MS-DOS but
can’t use most programs produced for
the IBM Personal Computer
unless certain
bits and bytes are
altered
but the wind still blows over
Savannah
and in the Spring
the turkey buzzard struts and
flounces before his
hens.-Charles Bukowski
A curmudgeon with heart and a flair for humanity, I always took a shine to his writing. He was more famous for writing about drunks and the women who loved them but in my case, the memory sticks in times like these:
I’ve got two busted external hard drives and the data had to get extracted and luckily (!), it all worked out so far. That process is not cheap and as we all know, I don’t take tech retail therapy lightly. On a happier note, I will soon be the proud owner of an iMac quadcore! I’ve been getting dorky and drooling over them ever since the new ones were unveiled a few weeks ago. I figure I need a computer to be so fast that it makes me feel lazy which in turn will make me work harder. Right? My current computer slogs through every command, providing the delusion of hard-won progress … and of my patience.
