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From: tommyp@isy.liu.se (Tommy Pedersen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Leave the Mac on
Message-ID: <1991Mar4.053545.4216@isy.liu.se>
Date: 4 Mar 91 05:35:45 GMT
References: <91053.130639DBG@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU> <1991Feb28.205440.13514@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <1991Mar1.040119.12074@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
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sl242030@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Robert P. Humphrey) writes:

>In article <1991Feb28.205440.13514@m.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Don Gillies) writes:
>>I believe apple has technicians to do repairs at a national, central
>>facility, with advanced diagnosis tools.  Repaired boards on day live
>>again in other macintoshes.  Most mainframe makers follow the same
>>policies, because it is too wasteful not too.

>	I know this to be true.  I do some courier work for a store
>that deals exclusively with Macintosh.  I also had to get my drive
>replaced there.  (If you wanted to know why your mother told you to
>never lend anybody anything that you didn't want hurt, and you wanted
>to know the greatest possible application of Murphy's Law I've ever
>witnessed, and finally, why I think that non-computer users are
>inherantly stupid, let me know.)  Anyway, instead of taking the drive
>apart and replacing the smashed drive head, I had to buy a new drive,
>and trade in my old one, which the shop sends back to Apple, where
>they replace the $3 wicket and sell it to someone else for $300.

>Sometimes it pays to order your own parts and fix it yourself, but I
>couldn't find any for the new SuperDrive.  Apparently knowbody had
>broken theirs yet but me (or rather, my ex-friend).

My comment should really be in alt.security, but since we are discussing
change of drives I would like to point out the security risk in letting
some other company have your repaired disk drive. The company might have
equipment for reading the disk and thereby exposing your data.

/Tommy Pedersen
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