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The Archive pick for this week was first published in August, 2002, just after the processor fried in my then 3 1/2 year old WallStreet PowerBook. What I didn't know at the time but was able to confirm later was that the fault was indeed with the processor, and the fix was the simple matter of installing another processor daughtercard, which I did after someone kindly supplied me with a surplus one.

The old WallStreet never missed a beat after that. I used it for a couple of years as my utility laptop for composing and editing away from my main workstation, after which my wife took it over as her word processing and Internet machine. The original battery finally croaked in the early winter days of December, 2007 - just shy of nine years is none too shappy for a Lithium Ion laptop battery. MY wife took over my old G3 iBook at that point, and last month my daughter borrowed the old WS to use as an Internet computer, so the WallStreet has had several lives after the patch of contretemps chronicled in the column.....