1. Dad shoots vacation video on a MiniDV video camera.
2. Four hours of video firewired onto IBM 75GXP without a single dropped frame
3. Days spent editing and refining the raw footage.
4. Editing finished. File saved to 75GXP.
5. "Quality, genuine IBM Product" Kicks the bucket beyond repair. We couldn't even ghost the drive onto the trusty Western Digital 80 gig.
6. Discovers various old time profanity that only my dad would know.
7. IBM is the devil, even though their Canadian head office is in my town...
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