[cctalk] Re: Silly question about S-100 and video monitors

Which is weird, since Radio Shack was renowned for putting schematic diagrams on so many of their products. My Flavoradio still has the schematic on it if a transistor goes bad.... CZ On 8/31/2023 2:48 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: >>> Hence the short text lines on "home" computers. >>> . . . . . .  Dave Sparks, the RS repair technician, was happy to >>> ignore any mods that he understood, so he didn't void the >>> warranty.  When his boss objected, he said that since I had brought >>> it in with an intact warranty label and paint on the screws, he >>> assumed that I had done all of the mods through the vent slots, >>> without opening it ("boat in a bottle" :-) > > On Thu, 31 Aug 2023, geneb via cctalk wrote: >> Fun fact - the "Warranty Void if Removed" tags were and are >> illegal.  The warranty can only be voided if the mfgr can prove the >> thing you did resulted in the problem you're claiming warranty on. :) > > eventually codified in the Magnuson-Moss warranty Act, enacted in > 1975, just a few years before RS started pasting those stickers on.. > > But, they didn't say that modifications voided the warranty, . . . > the warranty was only voided if the sticker was damaged. So, > modifications were OK if you did them without damaging the sticker > and/or the painted over screwheads. > http://www.glyptal.com/products/G7526Ftech.pdf > > -- > Grumpy Ol' Fred             cisin(a)xenosoft.com