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From: csc@watmath.UUCP (Jan Gray)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16
Subject: Atari 520ST power supply failure
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Date: Tue, 6-May-86 17:25:49 EDT
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Posted: Tue May  6 17:25:49 1986
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I've had my ST for five months, been running with a homebrew 1 Mbyte upgrade
for four, ROMs for one.  On Sunday morning my power supply smelled burnt, and
the ST was dead when I turned it on.  Fortunately, when I tried a new power
supply the machine was fine.

It was an old, black, tall power supply (with cables running out of both ends).

Question: I remember an article a few months back from someone whose old
power supply failed, and mention of some acknowledgement of the problem
by Atari.  Is there an official line from Atari?  (Probably "yes, you
overheated your power supply with the extra RAM, you lose!")

Question: Has this happened to many of you?  What did you do?

"I knew things would start to fail once the warranty expired"

Jan Gray