5 Sep
2003
5 Sep
'03
11:17 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason McBrien" <jbmcb(a)hotmail.com>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 9:31 AM
Subject: Re: Historical relevance of common clone PC was Re: YADA10YR (Yet
Another Discussion About the 10 Year Rule)
Or you can get your degree. You can major in computer repair or business
administration!
Wasn't that the era when PC's became commodity enough that "Repairing"
one
meant running a DOS floppy checker on a drive to see if it's dead, and
throwing a new one in if it was? I remember my friend's dad had a floppy
drive alignment gadget, hooked up to an oscilloscope and let you realign
the
heads of your floppy drive. Cost twice as much as a
new floppy drive, but
if
you fixed one twice, it's paid off :)
I still havnt made up my mind which is better, expensive computer equipment
you can repair that lasts forever or extemely cheap equipment that dies in a
few years that gets tossed. If everything made from the start of computing
was cheaply made none of us would have this hobby now, then again I dont
miss paying $700 for a 300dpi laser printer or $2000 for the first 2x CDR
burner.