28 May
2007
28 May
'07
11:24 a.m.
Zane H. Healy wrote:
At 5:49 PM -0700 5/27/07, Chris M wrote:
Which reminds me, I need to fix mine in order to get rid of it (thankfully
it's just an AC-side noise supression cap that's gone - the machine's
otherwise fine... fixing it's just been one of those round tuit moments :-)
The cap let out a huge amount of dense smoke (as they tend to do) - enough
that it hung around long enough for me to unscrew and remove the supply and
take a photo of it. (http://www.patooie.com/temp/apple_3_cap_explosion_sm.jpg)
Q.: Anyone know what the going rate is for a ///, Monitor ///, original media
+ docs, and a pair of ProFile drives? I'd always got the feeling that Apple
/// systems were in that oddball category of "rare but totally without value",
but maybe that's changed.
cheers
Jules
--- Erik Klein <classiccmp at
vintage-computer.com>
wrote:
> Rather than repair it I'm looking to
replace it with
> another.
>
> Does anyone have an Apple /// power supply they'd
> part with?
somehow I fail to see the logic of replacing an
entire
p/s when 3 minutes of soldering would alleviate the
problem...
Not to mention that Apple ///'s are rare enough these days 