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From: agr@vaxine.UUCP (Arnold Reinhold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: ESD causes degenerative brain disease in Mac IIs
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Date: Mon, 9-Nov-87 11:43:15 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  9 11:43:15 1987
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Organization: Automatix Inc.,  Billerica, MA
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Julian Vrieslander of Cornell U. writes:

>This may give you sweaty palms the next time you open your Mac II case.
>One of our local Apple dealers says that, at the factory service training
>sessions, he was told that the Mac II motherboard was *extremely*
>sensitive to damage from electrostatic discharge (ESD).


We are an Apple VAR and are marketing an Industrialized version of the MAC II
called the AI 90.  While we were developing the AI 90 package we had a number of
MAC II's taken apart.  The mother boards were handled extensively (and
I might say carelessly) while we were trying out various concepts.  This was in
the summer when static is less of an issue, but we have experienced no
problems with these initial units. They are now used for development in house.

People should *always* follow good ESD practice when handling any computer
(our AI 90 production people do!), but we have found the MAC II mother boards
to be fairly robust.

Arnold G. Reinhold
Automatix Inc., 1000 Tech Park Dr., Billerica, Mass. 01821
617 667 7900   Applelink V0280