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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.
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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
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Phil Staub, phils@tekigm2.MEN.TEK.COM
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