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- Path: sparky!uunet!brunix!brunix!omh
- From: omh@cs.brown.edu (Owen M. Hartnett)
- Subject: Re: Monitor shakes
- Message-ID: <1992Jul25.033626.2613@cs.brown.edu>
- Summary: Report of death greatly exaggerated
- Sender: news@cs.brown.edu
- Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
- References: <17990010@hpspdla.spd.HP.COM>
- Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 03:36:26 GMT
- Lines: 25
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- In article <17990010@hpspdla.spd.HP.COM> stevewi@hpspdla.spd.HP.COM (Steve Witten) writes:
- >Sounds like your Mac+ has the dreaded "failing power supply" disease.
- >FPS disease is VERY common in Mac Pluses.
- >
- >Take it from me (as one who had a Mac+ with FPS), your Mac+ has
- >nearly reached the end of its life (unless you are good at fixing
- >these things yourself). If you pay soneone else to fix it, you are
- >in for quite a large repair bill ... certainly more than your Plus is
- >worth but not quite as much as the cost of a new Classic.
- >
-
- Well, now, $56 or so from SoftSolutions for their power supply upgrade kit,
- $27 for Larry Pina's book, a fun afternoon with a soldering iron for some
- light circuit board parts repair or else the price of a case of beer to get
- a techie friend to wield the iron for you, I'd say a plus is worth more than
- that.
-
- That plus has many more hours of PhrazeCrazePlus left in it.
-
- -Owen
-
- Owen Hartnett omh@cs.brown.edu
- "FAITH, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks
- without knowledge, of things without parallel."
- -Ambrose Bierce - The Devil's Dictionary
-