Beaminster — Mar 1st 2016

There was a good turn-out of seventeen members and three new visitors to hear Michael give a presentation on a Mac basic – Time Machine. The importance of backing-up cannot be stressed too strongly, particularly by people who have lost files or photos ,and so this presentation was a welcome introduction to the ease of letting your Mac look after itself and of avoiding grief when, as is inevitable, a hard-drive dies.

Apart from showing, as well as the projector would permit, because there were some dark and mysterious areas, how Time Machine works, Michael also mentioned that it is possible, using the paid application Carbon Copy Cloner, to make a bootable back-up, in other words one that contains your operating system too – something that Time Machine doesn’t copy.

New member Ann Simon had brought in her very very early Mac – this was a Macintosh Plus, still using the original one-box design, but two years on from the first 128K Mac. A very simple operating system, but nevertheless a capable little machine still.

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