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- From: marcus@sun.pcl.ac.uk (Marcus Harvey)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: PowerBook 160: availability, price, etc.
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.092513.27647@sun.pcl.ac.uk>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 09:25:13 GMT
- References: <NICK.92Sep7133701@vaila.ed.ac.uk> <547RqB17w165w@mantis.co.uk> <NICK.92Sep9132228@vaila.ed.ac.uk>
- Organization: Polytechnic of Central London
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- In article <NICK.92Sep9132228@vaila.ed.ac.uk> nick@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) writes:
- >In article <547RqB17w165w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (mathew) writes:
- >
- > Well, good luck. I hope you don't suffer from the hard disk problem... it
- > seems a number of PowerBooks had dodgy hard drive mechanisms fitted.
- > Symptoms include periodic whining and buzzing noises whenever the drive is
- > spinning (even if it's not doing anything). My PB100's hard drive had to be
- > replaced. The engineer said they'd had several in with the same problem.
- >
- >The machine arrived this morning, and seems fine.
- >
- >For the money I saved over the UK price, I could always buy a replacement
- >hard disk anyway. :-)
- >
- >Nick.
-
- Just being curious - how much did Customs sting you for?
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- Marcus Harvey, Polytechnic of Central London IRS
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