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A sob story:
	I went to my local Apple dealer (on campus) for a drive upgrade on my
512K Mac, originally a 128K modified via 3rd party.  The 512K upgrade worked
GREAT!  I even had it running a ramdisk for 24 hours at a time without
trouble!
	The sad part:  the friendly dealer said to me, "Ken, you know, we've
got a problem.  Your 512K upgrade was third party.  We installed the upgrade
and it works fine.  We can even test it out now if you want.  But we can't
warranty the upgrade.  This is Apple talking here."
	So I asked, "no warranty even on the drive itself?"
	"Nope." he said.
	To make a long story short, it is official Apple policy (I think we
all know by now, although it seems kinda new to me) that once the board has
been touched by non-Apple hands, any Apple upgrades made on it cannot be
guaranteed.  The friendly dealer posessed by the demon Apple proceeded to
have me sign the work order saying that I accept that the upgrade is not
under a warranty.  Knowing that the warranty period is but a real long 90
days (my 512K upgrade was warranted for 180 days!!!), I proceeded to sign it.
If it dies, it will probably do so after the warranty anyway.

Flame on:

COME ON, WORM (I mean Apple)!!  Just where do you get off?  If the ROM itself
was defective, it would not be warranted????

And how about the drive???  Just what can the "unoffical" upgrade do to a
drive?  The only thing I've seen doing dirty deeds with the drive is SOFTWARE
(all you CMU people know what I'm talking about--A certain software package
used in Intro that eats disks for dessert).

Are you people at WORM (sorry, I'm just not typing well today) trying to suck
up more money from empty college bank accounts all over????

HOWZABOUT YOUR WARRANTY PERIOD??  Huh???  Do you intentionally make it so
short so as to take advantage of people's fears and boost your sale of
WormCare???

Flame off.

I'm still waiting for a 512K==>1Mb Dove upgrade from Programs Plus.  I don't
have a HyperDrive to worry about, so I hope it will work out well.  As usual,
I will relate any negative or positive experiences to the net.

---Ken

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DISCLAIMER:  If anyone besides Apple (typed it right this time) was insulted,
it was not by intention.