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From: rjd@nancy (Rob Demillo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Lyco Computer
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Date: 18 Feb 88 22:05:45 GMT
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In article <47@obie.UUCP> wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes) writes:
>In article <22558@brunix.UUCP>, rjd@nancy (Rob Demillo) writes:
>> Well, sources (from within Lyco and other mail order houses)
>> tell us that Lyco had been getting its STs "illegally."
>> What does "illegally" mean? Your guess is as good as mine. 
>
>Rumor has it that Lyco and CMO were buying "bad" STs from Atari,
>ostensibly for spare parts, and then doing whatever it took to make
>them run enough to sell them.  You pop off the cover and the RF shield
>and there are Atari Q/C "REJECTED" stickers all over the place. 

Well, just to back this claim up, the story continues...

Exactly 24 hours after I posted my first article about Lyco, the 
friend of mine that originally bought his though Lyco called me
up: it seems that his 1040 fryed. Not just your standard, made-in-america
turn in on and it doesn't work kinda deal...I'm talking about:

                      ** FIZZZZZZZZZZZZZ---TTTTTT!!! **

accompanied by smoke and sparks. (I have only seen one other machine
do this: an IBM Portable PC that had the wrong monitor plugged into it.)

So, he opens it up: sure enough the power supply blew. He told me after
the fact that it had been running kinda hot ever since he bought it,
and twice it rebooted for no reason. He bought a new power supply ($45)
and now everything is fine...

...if he has the old one I'll have him look for the Atari Q/C "REJECT"
stickers.





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