Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wasatch!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tekgen!tekigm2!phils From: phils@tekigm2.MEN.TEK.COM (Philip E Staub) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: A1000 Rejuvenator Project Message-ID: <5848@tekigm2.MEN.TEK.COM> Date: 18 Aug 89 17:16:33 GMT References: <18566.24DF49E1@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> <3743@csd4.milw.wisc.edu> <1775@ucqais.uc.edu> <800@becker.UUCP> Reply-To: phils@tekigm2.MEN.TEK.COM (Philip E Staub) Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Vancouver, WA. Lines: 27 In article <800@becker.UUCP> douglee@becker.UUCP (Doug Lee) writes: >1930's where manufacturers all sold undocumented stuff. Eventually >they had to issue schematics so the things could be repaired. I hope we >haven't reached such a state in our throw-away society that major computer >peripherals/addons are considered disposable. Sorry to disrupt the net with >a flame, but no-one else seems to have addressed this issue and it has been >bugging me for a while. Sadly, I'm afraid I reached that conclusion quite a while ago. Try to get an A1000 internal drive repaired (or even aligned!) sometime. I had the misfortune of needing to do this and eventually had to resort to buying a new drive. This may not qualify as a "major computer peripheral" to some people, but I couldn't justify $180 (last time I checked) for a replacement drive from Commodore. Eventually I found a replacement drive through a local user's group for $110, but even then I had to do a little hacking to make everything fit. >-- >Doug Lee >douglee@becker >416-461-5357 -Phil -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Staub, phils@tekigm2.MEN.TEK.COM Definition: BUG: A feature (present or absent) which is (at best) inconvenient.