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>   From: iltis@ucsbcsl.UUCP
>   Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
>   Subject: Digital Board Failure
>   Message-ID: <212@ucsbcsl.UUCP>
>   Date: 2 Jan 85 21:15:35 GMT
>   Date-Received: 4 Jan 85 18:53:32 GMT
>   Organization: U.C. Santa Barbara
>   Lines: 48
>   
>   About a month and a half ago, I had my 128K Mac upgraded to 512K.
>   The digital board failed and I am having difficulties getting it
>   replaced promptly (the latest word is, a couple of weeks). The local
>   service people told me that they had just received an announcement from
>   Apple about some sort of problem with the 512K digital boards (They were not
>   willing to provide specifics) I would like to know from the net if other people have also encountered
>   512K board failures, and if anything can be done to force Apple to replace the
>   defective boards promptly. 
>   (Like overnight shipment of replacements or something)
>   
>   I have also encountered the disk trashing problem with the 512K machine.
>   Curiously, with the 128K machine (which I used for 3 1/2 months prior to the
>   upgrade) I never lost a file or a disk.  Is there some problem inherent in the
>   512K machine that causes trashed disks? 
>   
>   If there are a lot of replies concerning premature board failures I will post
>   some sort of a summary.
>   
>   R.A. Iltis
>   UC Santa Barbara Dept. ECE

Has anyone heard anything more about this? I was ready to upgrade my
Mac to 512K, but I'd rather have a healthy Skinny Mac than a sick Fat
Mac. 

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Scott Stevens
AT&T Consumer Products
Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
UUCP: inuxi!stevens