25 May
2000
25 May
'00
5:52 p.m.
On Thu, 25 May 2000, Mark Gregory wrote:
On the whole, your reply seemed remarkably snotty and
unhelpful, and didn't
Sorry it appeared that way; it was posted only out of concern for the
preservation of older computers.
add much useful information
to help solve the problem. And for relatively common computers, component
swapping is a perfectly valid way of isolating a fault quickly. Let's
Not always. E.g., a device like a PSU that was working, and is then
moved, can have a bit of metal, solder, etc. come lose and short
something out.
assume the worst case: he had fried his other Lisa.
Would that have been a
tragic loss to history? There are hundreds (thousands?) of other preserved
It would be if everyone who had one of them "repaired" it that way.
Lisas out there. Even with blown components, he could
still have sold them
for hundreds "as-is" on eBay, where they would provide parts to revive
Yes, right... fry that system and then sell it on e-bay, that's ok,
because it will still bring a high price, so who cares whether it
works, right? Turn the monitors into fishbowls, remove core memory
and sell it in a picture frame, because, who cares if these are used
again since they can bring big bucks on e-bay.
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R. D. Davis
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