Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!think!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!hplabs!sdcrdcf!randvax!florman From: florman@randvax.UUCP (Bruce Florman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: My Mac is coming down with something Message-ID: <1531@randvax.UUCP> Date: 22 Jun 88 00:07:09 GMT Organization: Rand Corp., Santa Monica, Ca. Lines: 16 Over the last couple of days the screen my faithful old Mac Plus has started to jump and flicker rather badly. I recall from other people's horror stories that the Mac has a failure mode where the screen goes black with a narrow white stripe running up the middle :-(skunk mode). Can anyone tell me what part is going bad, and whether or not there is any advantage in getting it fixed before it goes out altogether? I know that SOP at most authorized Apple service centers is to simply swap out the major components until the problem goes away, and then charge poor sucker, er, valued customer, the full price of the board. Can anyone recommend a shop in Southern California which will fix a problem at a lower level (ie. less expensively) than this? -Thanks for any help, Bruce Florman