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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...

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...

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)