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From: anderson@dogie.macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: HELP -- MY STATION DIED!!!!!!!!!
Message-ID: <1991Apr7.023532.22870@macc.wisc.edu>
Date: 7 Apr 91 02:35:32 GMT
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In article <SIMMONS.91Apr6150149@rigel.neep.wisc.edu>
simmons@rigel.neep.wisc.edu (Kim Simmons) writes:

]In article <1991Apr6.135650.433@hulaw1.harvard.edu>
]roth2@hulaw1.harvard.edu writes:

][NeXTstation died of power failure]

]Had the same exact thing happen to my machine and to another machine on
]another floor about a week before my machine died. It was the power supply in
]both cases. Took it over to repair and they replaced the power supply. We
]were wondering if there was a quality control problem with the power supply
]or something. I sure hope not. Any other data points out there. By the way,
]the same power strip that my NeXT was attached to also has a Vaxstation 3200
]attached to it. That and everything else was O.K. but the NeXTstation was
]dead. 

I was talking yesterday to the guy who runs the Computer
Repair Service at our place (probably where Kim got his
machine fixed).  He says they're replacing power supplies in
quite a few NeXTstations these days.  Must be either a small
design flaw or a quality control issue by the supplier, I
guess.

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