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- From: stevenp@mummy.agsm.unsw.OZ.AU (Steven Phelan)
- Subject: Re: Don't Try This At Home Kiddies...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.051958.8196@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU>
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- Organization: Australian Graduate School of Management
- References: <1992Oct29.020010.12070@bilby.cs.uwa.edu.au>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 05:19:58 GMT
- Lines: 39
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- In article <1992Oct29.020010.12070@bilby.cs.uwa.edu.au> Quinn <quinn@cs.uwa.edu.au> writes:
- >I found this in an (Australian) Apple News (Spring 1992) pamphlet. It
- >answers the question "Exactly how tough are the PowerBooks?" Seeing as
- >they're a propaganda rag I'm sure they won't mind me copying it wholesale
- >without permission...
- >
- >>Backed-Over PowerBook Back At Work
- >>
- >>When it comes to the crunch, the PowerBook is a tough computer. Our
- >>marketing department reports the story of a PowerBook owner whoes child
- >>placed the computer under the back wheel of his car (the things kids
- >do!).
- >>
- >>Later the hapless owner reversed the card and heard strange crunching
- >>noises from the rear end. There lay the PowerBook, much the worse for
- >wear
- >>with a smashed case and exposed boards. But upon examination it was
- >found
- >>that the crushed computer still functioned perfectly, provided the
- >battery
- >>was held on to the board contacts.
- >>
- >>Despite its run-in with the back wheel, the screen was undamaged, as was
- >>the hard disk. THe relieved owner took the PowerBook along to an Apple
- >>Reseller, had the case replaced and now everything, happily, is back to
- >>normal.
- >
- >The nice thing about tall stories like this is that it doesn't really
- >matter whether they're true (-: or even gross exaggerations. At least
- >someone, somewhere has been having some luck.
- >
- As a close friend of the unfortunate Powerbook owner described above I can
- fully vouch for the accuracy of the case described in Apple News. Of course
- words cannot describe the mental state of my friend moments after the accident
- or the exhilaration of having his 2 week old PB170 returned to him in complete
- working order.
-
- PS. Anybody wanna buy a PB170? (Cheap)
- .
-