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Article #37145Re: $300 Mac II ADB fuse repair
From: Stephen Sakamoto
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 1989 17:35
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 1989 17:35
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>In article <87923@sun.uucp> fiddler%concertina@Sun.COM (Steve Hix) writes: >>In article <76000341@p.cs.uiuc.edu>, gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu writes: >>> Why does Apple do this sort of stuff? >>> -- Why would anyone solder a fuse to a circuit board? >>> -- Why would anyone solder a battery to a circuit board? In article <6574@polya.Stanford.EDU> kaufman@polya.Stanford.EDU writes: >The REAL question, not yet answered, is why anyone would charge $300 to solder >in a new fuse! >It's not much of a repair organization that can only swap whole boards to >replace a bad component. Yes, but, it allows Apple to get field repairs done by people without a lot of technical knowledge. I have gone thru service certification and you would be amazed at who can pass. Actually its kind of scary. I have been rebuilding our LaserWriters and have 4 that are pushing 200,000 copies and one that is past 300,00 and humming along. Have done my fair share of Mac power supply repairs too. Shhh...Don't tell Apple. :-)) Stephen Sakamoto UCLA Computer Science Department steph@cs.ucla.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!rochester!rutgers!ucla-cs!steph From: steph@maui.cs.ucla.edu (Stephen Sakamoto) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: $300 Mac II ADB fuse repair Message-ID: <20086@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> Date: 2 Feb 89 17:35:19 GMT References: <11984@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <76000341@p.cs.uiuc.edu> <87923@sun.uucp> <6574@polya.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@CS.UCLA.EDU Reply-To: steph@cs.ucla.edu (Stephen Sakamoto) Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Lines: 28