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From: jcc@ut-emx.UUCP (J. Chris Cooley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac SE problem
Message-ID: <2053@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 3 May 88 12:28:10 GMT
References: <3087@saturn.ucsc.edu>
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Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
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Keywords: erase your rams :-)
Summary: Hah!

In article <3087@saturn.ucsc.edu>, matthew@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (73550000) writes:
> 
> I just fixed a Mac SE which was displaying the following symptom:
> 
>  Turn on the Mac...
>  and you get a Sad Mac with a low-numbered hex number
> 
> The solution was to remove the main logic board,... remove all of
> the RAM memory (in SIMMs) and erase the edge connectors using a
> high quality eraser. Then replace the SIMMs.

Hah!  This is great!  I remember my old TRS-80 (Radio Shack) Model 1.
This was the fix for a poorly-working computer.  The reason?  The fools
were too cheap to gold plate the edge connector contacts to keep gunk
from forming on them.

I don't mind saying that it is NOT reassuring to see this "Money-saving"
practice coming back into vogue.  I hope it was some third-party memory
provider and not Apple, so we can easily avoid a brand or company name.

> Matthew Kaufman
> matthew@ucsck.ucsc.edu, matthew@ucscb.ucsc.edu, ...!ucbvax!ucscc!ucsck!matthew
> (flames are unnecessary,... direct via e-mail if required)

					--chris