🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <B198C1CA966828F35@cara.demon.co.uk>, peter@cara.demon.co.uk
(Peter Ceresole) wrote:
> In article <cea20-ya02408000R0106981336480001@nntp-serv.cam.ac.uk>,
> cea20@cus.cam.ac.uk (Carl Edlund Anderson) wrote:  
> > During the course of normal operations this morning a mysterious line
> >of darkened pixels appeared on the screen of my PowerBook 520c.  It started
> >at the bottom of the screen, about 6/10ths of the way over from the right
> >hand side and ran up to about the middle of the screen.
> 
> I'm very much afraid that it's a failure in the connector to your screen; I
> had exactly the same (half way across the screen from the bottom etc) on an
> IBM laptop a few years ago. With luck it may be fixable by a good hardware
> man. On my IBM it was under guarantee and they changed the screen but you
> don't want to try this with your own money.

     Mmmm, I was afraid of something like that.  The hinge between screen
and body has never been the same since the Apple Cambridge BusinessCentre
did some "repairs" on my machine last year ...  I'll hope it doesn't start
playing up again! (At least until I've got a job someday and can afford a
new machine!).

     Thanks for the info!

Cheers,
Carl

-- 
Carl Edlund Anderson
Dept. of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, & Celtic
St. John's College, University of Cambridge
mailto:cea20@cus.cam.ac.uk
http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~carl/