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- From: uerics@mcl.ucsb.edu (Eric D. Shepherd)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: Future of the II line (???)
- Message-ID: <uerics.722026111@mcl>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 18:48:31 GMT
- Article-I.D.: mcl.uerics.722026111
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- My IIGS has needed only one repair, and the dealer seriously muffed it.
- You'd switch on the machine and the keyboard buffer would instantly be
- filled with "a"s. It would never stop reading "a"s. I took it all down
- the the dealer and said "I think either the keyboard or the mouse is bad".
- The fool:
-
- (a) Couldn't get it to boot his 3.5" disk drive, so he replaced my logic
- board (the reason for this was that I had no 3.5s at the time, so the CP
- was set to boot slot 6).
- (b) Told me to take my mouse home. At this point, he saw no problems and
- said it was fixed.
-
- As soon as I hooked up the mouse, of course, the "a"s were back. The fool
- had never seen an ADB mouse before, and didn't realize it connected
- through the same port as the keyboard. Turns out the mouse was shorting
- the lines. Oh, yeah, the service tech. was fired the next day. :)
-
- - Eric S.
-
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- Eric D. Shepherd | Apple II Alliance Charter Member
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- AOL: Sheppy | doubt, rewrite from scratch."
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