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From: chris@imagine.ADMS-RAD.Unisys.COM (Chris Sterritt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Expensive doorstops
Message-ID: <291@imagine.ADMS-RAD.Unisys.COM>
Date: 5 Jul 90 18:43:50 GMT
References: <1990Jul3.192829.2745@kth.se> <1990Jul4.011508.10300@eng.umd.edu>
Reply-To: chris@ADMS-RAD.Unisys.COM (Chris Sterritt)
Organization: Unisys/Automated Document Management Systems, Radnor, PA
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In article <1990Jul4.011508.10300@eng.umd.edu> russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) writes:
>In article <1990Jul3.192829.2745@kth.se> d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte) writes:
>>[...about DOA macs...]
>I don't think Apple has too much control over DOAs-- most of them seem
>to be due to obvious shipping damage (like the two I've seen-- in both cases,
>the circuit board was actually cracked)  Maybe they need to be packed better,
>but there seems to be sufficient styrofoam...

Early (Apple II, II+ days) Apple repair documentation had a funny line about
the UPS et al. using SHERMAN TANKS to do their deliveries :-), so Apple has
known about the difficulty of shipping delicate components for quite a while.
In those days, however, it was really rare to get an Apple component that was
dead on arrival.

	--chris sterritt

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