Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!mailrus!ames!think!ephraim From: ephraim@think.COM (Ephraim Vishniac) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: How many times has your video board died? Message-ID: <27226@news.Think.COM> Date: 17 Aug 89 14:14:40 GMT References: <745@wrs.wrs.com> <482@sunfs3.camex.uucp> Reply-To: ephraim@think.com (Ephraim Vishniac) Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA Lines: 15 In article <482@sunfs3.camex.uucp> kent@sunfs3.UUCP (Kent Borg) writes: >I bought my Plus about a half year after they came out... >I never leave it on over night or when I am not >around. (There once was a rumor of a Mac that caught fire!) Rumor? A Mac Plus in the next office caught fire (i.e., was billowing smoke, I didn't actually look inside) about two weeks ago. I've also read first-hand reports of burning Macs in comp.sys.mac and net.micro.mac over the past five years. I don't believe everything I read here, but it looks like Macs *do* catch fire! Ephraim Vishniac ephraim@think.com ThinkingCorp@applelink.apple.com Thinking Machines Corporation / 245 First Street / Cambridge, MA 02142 One of the flaws in the anarchic bopper society was the ease with which such crazed rumors could spread.