Help I've just lost 8 years worth of iCal data

I've just lost 8 years worth of iCal data. Does Apple still have the data? My HD died. My Mac mini will not support the new "Cloud" portal. Does anyone have any ideas how I can retrieve my data from Apple? Thanks

When you say "I can see all of my calendars", I'm assuming you mean in iCal, yes? If so, my two suggestions would be:
1) Go into Time Machine and go back to a date when you had all your calendar info, and restore the calendar from there.
Or ...
2) If you were using MobileMe, access your MobileMe account through your web browser, open the Calendar in there and see if there's any data in that calendar. If there is, you should be able to sync through Mobile Me, choosing let MobileMe overwrite the hard drive.
But I'd definitely try Time Machine first.
Good luck.

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