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Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
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Date: Tue, 25-Mar-86 09:45:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 25 09:45:00 1986
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>>
>> Much (justifiable) flamage about Apple forcing all repairs on Macs
>> to be done by board swapping.
>>
>
> A somewhat cooler comment about Apple following IBM's lead in the repair
> business, and equating time and money as a justification for board
> swapping as a sad, but perhaps not inappropriate, service approach.
>

Well, *I* think this board swap repair approach is a crock - if time is
the big problem, it's easy enough to swap the board for a service spare
and take the bad one back to the shop for analysis. You then fix the problem
and put the old board back (after fixing that cold solder joint or replacing
that $3 memory chip). MANY problems are fairly obvious - and if it becomes
clear that the problem is NOT going to be easy to find, then you just leave
that new board in and charge for a board swap. I've DONE work on Mac logic
boards - it just isn't that bad.

It'd be nice if Apple would sell schematics, or at least a description of
the various pots and some voltage test points, for those of use who WANT
to service our own boards. Hmmm... I wonder if I could get any of that
from a local dealer?

-- Jerry Callen    ...(ima,ihnp4)!inmet!ada-uts!callen