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- From: J.Cook@ENS.Prime.COM (Jim Cook)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: HELP! Apple wont give back disks.
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.174550.16165@primerd.prime.com>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 17:45:50 GMT
- Article-I.D.: primerd.1992Sep4.174550.16165
- References: <39112@imag.imag.fr> <1664@radius.com> <1992Sep1.230425.12414@wam.umd.edu> <1992Sep4.001452.852@berlioz.nsc.com>
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- In article <1992Sep4.001452.852@berlioz.nsc.com> pine@maui.nsc.com (Bill
- Needles) writes:
- >My wife teachs kindergarten and uses a donated mac (old 512k model) with her
- >students. The floppy drives, both internal and the external unit, fail to
- >eject the disk when dragging the icon to the trash can. They both make an
- >attempt, as demonstrated by the mechanical sounds, but the disk simply
- >resettles in the drive.
- >
- >As many of you know CA does not fund schools well, so taking it down to
- >the local mac shop is out. Anybody familiar with this kind of problem and
- >better yet, does anyone have suggested repairs. We can handle the work.
-
- I don't know how to fix them, but there are books...
-
- Go down to your local bookstore and look for books by Larry Pina.
- If they don't have them, have a salesperson look them up and order them.
- He has at least two, the more recent being "The Dead Mac Scrolls", which
- is for knowledgable people. Another book covers similar stuff, but holds
- your hand (i.e. "This is the hot end of the soldering iron.").
-
- Good luck,
- Jim
-