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- From: chall@clover.cleaf.com (Chris Hall)
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- Subject: Re: Burned up 1960?
- Date: 16 Feb 1996 10:05:22 GMT
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- Fred Heitkamp (fheitka@ibm.net) wrote:
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- : Mine blew some time ago. Fortunately I had purchase the SMG waranty and
- : they fixed it. Well actually they replaced it with a rebuilt one.
-
- : I least I got something back from the waranty cost.
-
- : My 1960 basically went up in smoke. Lucky someone was home. It could
- : of burnt the house down.
-
- I would never leave a 1960 turned on and unattended for more than about 5
- minutes. They are time bombs. My first one died and probably would have
- caught fire if it had been left on. So far this one I've had for about 3
- years is working fine except for a single faint moving vertical line on the
- left side that looks like a stream of water running down the screen. I think
- that's a defect in the picture tube. One of these days, I'm going to
- replace it.
-
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- Chris Hall
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