Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 01:52:53 -0000
From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com>
Subject: Tidbit - Can't Turn It Off

Keyword: Advocacy, Windows Daymares

This tidbit is from:

Ed Foskey

Greetings from sunny Southwest Florida. I have my own Windows Daymare 
that I would like to add to the list. I am an associate minister in a 
small church in Fort Myers, Florida. I own my own Power Mac and use it 
daily in my work. The church secretary has the church's other computer (a 
gift from a Windows-loving member). When he gave it, I asked him who was 
going to take care of the support costs. He said that he would reimburse 
the church for any support costs.

We had the tech person out so set it up, install the software, transfer 
data from the hard drive in an old PS-1 that we were using and get us 
going (two 8 hour days).

Next, a fax/modem was installed. That took the tech person about 6 hours 
to get the system to recognize everything again (we lost cd then printer 
and then the hard drive recognition).

Finally, all is running well. We had the tech person out for some sort of 
minor something for about an hour in December.

On Sunday, January 11th, we turned it on to get some info out and could 
not get the mouse to work. The tech person came out on Monday and said 
that our mouse driver was missing. He reinstalled and all worked well. On 
Tuesday, we had the tech person out again because the mouse driver was 
missing again--reinstalled and all worked well. On Thursday, we had the 
tech person out again because the mouse driver was missing 
again--reinstalled and all worked well. On Friday, we had the tech person 
out and he took it back to his shop and ran a "full diagnostic" on the 
system.

We got it back on Monday with the following instructions:

"You must buy this UPS device to assure that the power does not go out on 
this machine. If you lose the power, you lose the mouse driver--and I 
will have to come out and reinstall it again."

Meanwhile, I did that week's publications on my Mac (with mouse working 
well). I did hear a few comments on how well the Sunday worship bulletin 
and that week's newsletter looked. I wonder how many of them saw my 
little 5-point disclaimer on the back pages of each. It read, "Published 
on a Power Macintosh 5260 using ClarisWorks 4.0."

I will evangelize the Mac anywhere!

__________________________
Digital Guy Sez:

Next time make it 18 point type. That should do it. ;-)