Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga.hardware:5827 comp.sys.amiga.advocacy:261 Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!lll-winken!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!caen!basil.engin.umich.edu!milamber From: milamber@caen.engin.umich.edu (Daryl Scott Cantrell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Internal Drive Button Summary: Similar problem.. Message-ID: <1991Jan25.183925.22680@engin.umich.edu> Date: 25 Jan 91 18:39:25 GMT References: <1991Jan24.170941.27277@lut.fi> <1262@pdxgate.UUCP> Sender: news@engin.umich.edu (CAEN Netnews) Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor Lines: 29 In article kherron@ms.uky.edu (Kenneth Herron) writes: >twells@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Tabor Wells) writes: > >>Wait, no, let me get this straight. I cannot get a new internal drive button >>... > >When the drive manufacturers ship the drive, they already have the buttons >on them. CBM probably doesn't stock *any* separate drive parts. I'm having a similar problem with a part Commodore DID supply. I broke the left audio jack on my 3000 (amazing how much leverage you get on it when you push down on a cable plugged into it..) and couldn't get a new one. I figured I'd just go to an authorized repair center and order a replacement but the guy initially wanted me to replace my motherboard (mega-bucks). All for a $.05 piece of molded plasic made in a Korean sweat shop! Eventually he talked Commodore (which refused to sell him an audio jack) into doing a warranty motherboard- swap. I don't have a problem with this since I'm not paying for it, but I imagine any profit margin CBM made on my educational buy is out the window.. Commodore sold me this computer (nice!), they have some minimum obligation to supply replacement parts. I mean there's a bin somewhere in their factory with 100,000 of these things sitting in it! -- +---------------------------------------+----------------------------+ | // Daryl S. Cantrell | These opinions are | | |\\\ milamber@caen.engin.umich.edu | shared by all of // | | |// Evolution's over. We won. | Humanity. \X/ | +---------------------------------------+----------------------------+