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From: kent@lloyd.camex.uucp (Kent Borg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: How many times has your video board died?
Message-ID: <487@lloyd.camex.uucp>
Date: 18 Aug 89 15:26:57 GMT
References: <745@wrs.wrs.com> <482@sunfs3.camex.uucp> <27226@news.Think.COM>
Reply-To: kent@lloyd.UUCP (Kent Borg)
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In article <27226@news.Think.COM> ephraim@think.com (Ephraim Vishniac) writes:
>In article <482@sunfs3.camex.uucp> kent@sunfs3.UUCP (Kent Borg) writes:
>>around.  (There once was a rumor of a Mac that caught fire!)
>
>Rumor?  A Mac Plus in the next office caught fire (i.e., was billowing
>smoke, I didn't actually look inside) about two weeks ago.  I've also
>read first-hand reports of burning Macs in comp.sys.mac and
>net.micro.mac over the past five years.  I don't believe everything I
>read here, but it looks like Macs *do* catch fire!

This last April the Boston Computer Society Macintosh Group published
an April edition of the Active Window, their monthly newsletter.

In it was an article about how some Macintoshes had been recalled,
that they caught fire, and about how there were gasoline soaked rags
inside.

Apparently the BCS Mac office got *very* tired of the frantic phone
calls from people who were scared to death.

I personally don't worry about gasoline soaked rags, but I do turn my
Mac Plus off when I'm not using it.  (Though I leave my IIx at work on
all the time--power supply won't always start when cold.  I do turn
off the monitor when I go home.)

Kent Borg
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