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From: goose@surf.sics.bu.oz (Ralph Schwarten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: NeXT breakdown rate !!!
Message-ID: <1291@surf.sics.bu.oz>
Date: 3 Sep 90 02:09:56 GMT
Organization: School of Info. & Comp. Sci., Bond University, Australia
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I am soon to be taking ownrship of a NeXT computer.
Because I live in a country where there are no NeXT dealerships etc, I
am worried about getting support for failed hardware.  Actually my main
concern is not so much getting parts after the machine bombs, but the
machine bombing in the first place.

So here is my question...
Could you people out in NeXT land give me an idea as to the machine's
physical relability ?  Are there a lot of NeXTs sitting at NeXT getting
repaired ?  What parts are likely to die ?  Have a lot of machines died
?  Are there common problems with certain components ?

Lastly, a bit of info about the laser's power.
If I live in a country that supplies 240 V at the the mains the cube
switches up .. OK so what about the printer ?  It supports only a switch
slectable rate of 110 or 220v.
Do I therfore switch the printer up to 220 and hope it doesn't explode ?
I have heard conflicting stories that the printer takes it's power from
the cube, if this is the case, will the Cube supply 220v to the peinter
if the printer is set to that ?
*basically* can someone tell me what I need to do, set or otherwise
hack, to get a stable machine and printer at 240 v

Thanks in advance

Ralph Schwarten
Dept. Computing and Information Technology
Bond University
Gold Coast
Qld
Australia
e-mail:goose@hal.nmg.bu.oz.au