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From: mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: IIgs Keyboard ADB connector bad
Message-ID: <36034@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 30 Oct 89 00:15:58 GMT
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fadden@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Andy McFadden) writes:
>[snip]
>
>Your Apple dealer won't fix it, he'll charge you $80+ for a new keyboard.
>Here we go again, getting screwed by Apple Dealers for lousy Apple design
>practices (can you say "dead //gs battery"?)  Maybe somebody will come up
>with an easy fix like they did for the "replaceable" battery...
>
>Actually, Apple probably will.  After all, it affects Macintoshes as well.
>
>fadden@cory.berkeley.edu (Andy McFadden)
>...!ucbvax!cory!fadden

Down, Andy.  Some dealers are Apple-certified to solder and do all that other
kind of whizzy electronics stuff we all expect.  It's just that not all of them
are.  A dealer in his area might very well be able to repair the keyboard ADB
connector without replacing the entire unit.

And get off the battery bit, will everyone?!?!?!

[Note:  The above was an example of good-natured whining, probably precipitated
by earthquake anxiety.  Just play along and Matt will be fine.  --the Eds.]

We honestly thought the battery life in IIgs's was going to be about 12 years
each and therefore we weren't worried about soldering them to the motherboard.
When it turned out we were not right, we changed it.  You can't ask for more
than correcting mistakes on the next production change, can you?

Of course you can, but please don't.  The impossible we do, the unrealisti
takes longer.  :)

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