Mac Reliability

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Date: Wed, 13 Feb 1985 08:50

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From: HENRY%MIT-OZ@MIT-MC.ARPA


Does anyone have an opinion on the "surge suppressor" frobs
advertised heavily in Mac mags? Is there a real danger of surges frying
your machine or are these guys just trying to make a buck? I'm a
little suspicious since I didn't see Apple offer or recommend one. 
Also, they seem to vary in price greatly, ranging from $50-$200.
Is there any difference?

I have been having very intermittent hardware problems with my Mac
[Screen boots with stripes instead of ? disk icon, but will start up
after a few minutes. Sometimes the Mac takes to a 15kHz scream, also
stopping after a while. And a really strange one -- sometimes it will
triple every character you type, but resetting the control panel will
cure it.] The machine is still under warranty but I hesitate to bring
it in since the problems are so unreproducible. Could power problems
be responsible?

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