Awhile ago, about a year or so, when looking back to see the dates of my
first replies and a few questions asked in the Apple Discussions, those
posts and all dated items from the first few years were gone.
The only reason to check into the Discussions at the time, was a new eMac
that was bought direct from Apple online and sent to a street address in a
very small town by UPS or FedEx. Either way, things had a knack for arriving
broken in the box.... In such a clever way, as to indicate it was an inside job.
Three eMacs, and hundreds of miles of extra driving (plus $60. each for return
shipping, even on ones that failed without apparent breaks) and then I got an
iMac G4 17-inch 1.25GHz. It arrived with a bent chrome arm. Later, it developed
kernel panics and the authorized reseller/service agent 100+ miles away (oneway)
was unwilling to look into it, since I did not buy it from them. Another company was
eventually found and they messed up two logic boards, installed Kingston RAM
under warranty, that failed and made kernel panics worse, and so on. Thousands
of miles traveled for yet another Mac under AppleCare. Oh, I also paid for express
shipping from Apple, but the only thing that was sent quickly was a tiny box that
carried the Applecare agreement and an AirPort Extreme card. The computer got
to me in three weeks by slow truck through Canada, & its box was beat.
So all comments from that time (eMacs & later iMac G4) are gone from the new
Apple Support Community discussions, as are the comments and service incident
reports from that time when I called Apple direct to see about troubleshooting. I
did most of the work myself, without their help, and finally they told the AASP in
Anchorage to just do what I told them; and follow my instructions to fix the unit.
And so they finally did. Then later, the power supply or logic board failed (again.)
Yet that started before May 2003. And before then, I had repaired & donated
over 300 Apple Macintosh computers to charities, & to a few poor people who
could not afford to get a computer. A few I sold. To those, I provided two year
support including the installation of update/upgrade, no charge. After all, I was
not in the business & these people were like friends... small towns are like that.
Several pages on the WayBack Machine are long gone. I know of persons who
contacted them and had page archived removed; they will do that. My dad & his
wife had a nice web site with wildlife art prints (he made on Mac) they sold via
an online store; they printed those on large printer in their house & mailed them.
As a naturalist, scientist, and teacher, he had a long interest in science & art. I
know that other sites online captured via the WayBack archive had been removed
by owners of content who sought to limit access; others who wanted to sell their
idea on another venue and not show the information freely in a dead page.
So, actual beginnings of early Apple computer discussions would have to be
sought by original name, to see if any vestige or residue remains stuck on the
shoes of internet progress. ℹThe internet may stop on occasion to clean its feet.😝
