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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
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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.