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- From: aescherm@iastate.edu (A Person of Awareness)
- Subject: Re: Craftsmanship is dying
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.111053.17267@news.iastate.edu>
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
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- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 11:10:53 GMT
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- The way that I solve the problem of New is Bad/Old is Good is to buy those
- old things that were good and fixable and those new things that I don't care
- if I can or can't fix.
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- Really, if I'm buying a $5 pair of walkman headphones, who cares if they
- break? BTW I actually had a Radio Rip Off Store sales-droid offer me a plan
- where for like $20 I could replace the headphones up to so many times in so
- many months. What if they didn't ever break? Then I would have spent $25
- on a $5 pair of headphones. Silly. Maybe good for runners, but I'm a sit-
- in-chair-and-program-until-my-eyes-fall-out-of-my-head type person. I don't
- break headphones very often.
-
- On the other hand, I require that my computers be repairable quickly and at
- minimal cost. I'm willing to accept 'obsolete' technology to accomplish this.
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- My current machines are an ORIGINAL IBM PC, an old Canon XT clone and a Mac
- SE. All of which, except the SE sort of, are very repairable. In fact, I
- spend alot of time doing that. =-) They cost, however, almost nothing to
- repair. In fact I have a friend who owns a reseller place. If I have a bad
- part I take it to him and he finds the same part and gives it to me with
- the knowledge that I'll deal with him on big purchases (by big I mean $100)
- in the future. =-) Now THAT'S service. He even helps to fix my machines
- for free because he knows I'll come back. You can't get that from any other
- place in my town. ($40/hour to do something I could do myself if I had time?)
-
- Anthony Clifton
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