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Article #43526Re: Apple's Horrible Product Quality
From: Straka
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 1989 12:59
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 1989 12:59
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What about the self-destructing upper head in the 800K floppy drives? I have had 2 of them go belly-up on me (on two different machines) after about a year or so of non-abusive use. It seems that the phosphor-bronze spring assembly that helps the head align itself to the disk media is a little bit too narrow in one particular area, and fatigues and eventually breaks. I looked at the new assembly of my latest replacement, and found the design of the upper head alighment spring to be MUCH heftier than the old one. Sounds to me like a known problem to Apple (/Sony)! I like my Macintoshes, but frankly, I'd be a lot less nervous if Apple were more forthright about some of the quality issues. -- Rich Straka att!ihlpf!straka MSDOS: All the wonderfully arcane syntax of UNIX(R), but without the power.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!ihlpf!straka From: straka@ihlpf.ATT.COM (Straka) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Apple's Horrible Product Quality Message-ID: <8690@ihlpf.ATT.COM> Date: 6 Jun 89 12:59:29 GMT References: <13743@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <2694@portia.Stanford.EDU> Reply-To: straka@ihlpf.UUCP (55223-Straka,R.J.) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois Lines: 18