Busting CRTs (was Re: Gold price was: Re: ebay feedback) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

7 Dec 1999

--- John B &lt;dylanb(a)sympatico.ca&gt; wrote:

...
  I just did that
accidentally to a Mac SE.  :-(  I was trying to remove a
cable from the innards and my hand slipped and wacked the board on the
back of the CRT and skewed it far enough to bust that little tit.  
 Do you know how many of those week lost at Queens Park?? One guy in my
 department nailed CRTs 2 in one week... You never forget that "hissing"
 sound that comes out of the unit... then the expression on the person
 working on it. 
That was me.  I heard this unmistakable noise and just sat there, a victim
of my own carelessness.

...
  The SEs also had those bad hard drives... the
Principal
 Secretary actually had a large screw driver next to his SE... Every time the
 drive wouldn't spin up he would beat the crap out of it. Apple came down and
 they agreed to replace all the flaky hard drives free immediately. 
I still have a Quantum PD1800S that has stiction.  I paid $1100 for it new
and they didn't consider it to be a warrantable problem.  I'll never buy from
them again.

-ethan

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