In fact, it died about 30 minutes before the show started.

We did everything we could think of — including ideas suggested by listeners to the show — to bring it back to life. No success.

As is the way with these things, it had been a while since Michael backed up his hard disk. You can imagine the panic — all his work for the upcoming NAB SuperMeet was on that computer.

Fortunately, we learned over the next couple of days that the hard disk was fine, it was only the graphics card that died.

Still, this was a classic example of the need to regularly backup your data. A hard disk is cheap compared to the price of losing your irreplaceable data.

I’m looking to hearing a report from Mike on this week’s show about what fixed the problem.

In the meantime, please consider this a reminder to be SURE you are backing up your data regularly.

Larry