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Article #25399Re: 800K disk drive blues
From: Tom Carstensen
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1988 19:12
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1988 19:12
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In article <870141@hpcilzb.HP.COM>, cnc@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Chris Christensen) writes: > 3?) What do people do about service for lower cost items like this. I called > a dealer who told me it would cost $35 just to look at it and then $55 an > hour to fix it. I already looked at it and it appears that a copper loop around > the top disk head has broken. Last summer I had the drive in my Mac Plus do the same thing - catch and rip the head from the upper arm in the drive. IT COST ME $164 to get it fixed. There is essentially no fix, they have to replace the drive with a reconditioned one. :------------------------------------------------------------: : Tom Carstensen Usenet: tomc@mntgfx.MENTOR.COM : : Mentor Graphics GEnie: XPC23637 : : : : . . . and this shall be Max Headroom's finest hour. : : - Max Headroom : :------------------------------------------------------------:
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!tektronix!sequent!mntgfx!tomc From: tomc@mntgfx.mentor.com (Tom Carstensen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: 800K disk drive blues Message-ID: <1988Feb16.111253.2237@mntgfx.mentor.com> Date: 16 Feb 88 19:12:49 GMT References: <870141@hpcilzb.HP.COM> Organization: Mentor Graphics Corporation, Beaverton Oregon Lines: 19 Summary: I had the same problem - and it cost $$$!