Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!snorkelwacker!mintaka!gnu!dzenc From: dzenc@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Dan Zenchelsky) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: WHICH 1084 Fix? (Re: 2002 popping) Message-ID: <1990Aug26.203027.28951@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> Date: 26 Aug 90 20:30:27 GMT References: <1990Aug13.111924.563@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <1195@tardis.Tymnet.COM> <1990Aug26.184107.1217@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Sender: daemon@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu (Lucifer Maleficius) Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science Lines: 30 In article <1990Aug26.184107.1217@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes: > >I still insist Commodore owes us all a recall on these monitors; asking the >naive user to fix ultra high voltage equipment, or to pay outrageous shop >repair fees for a problem entirely Commodore's responsibility is despicable. > >This isn't the only problem Commodore has given this approach, by the way. >The garbage power supplies on the original A500s got similar treatment, >and for all I know are still being sold to this date. > Nope, the power supplies were fixed. I replaced mine (along with the rest of my system) when my 2002 killed it, and the new one works great (the 2002 still doesn't, however, so I don't use it)... It's much lighter than the origianl power supply, so if you have a lightweight one, you're probably o.k. -Dan >Kent, the man from xanth. > -- ___________________________________________________________________________ | _______ |________________________________________| | || |o| Dan Zenchelsky | | | ||____| | | Any sufficiently advanced bug is | | | ___ | dzenc@gnu.ai.mit.edu | indistinguishable from a feature. | | |_|___|_| |______________-- Rich Kulawiec__________| |__________________________________|________________________________________|