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From: rcbaab@eutrc3.urc.tue.nl (Annard "Icon" Brouwer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: SIMM removal tool
Summary: Some things one can do by himself...
Message-ID: <1339@eutrc3.urc.tue.nl>
Date: 19 Dec 89 15:15:57 GMT
References: <1989Dec18.035636.7591@deimos.cis.ksu.edu> <9334@hoptoad.uucp> <37361@apple.Apple.COM>
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Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
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In article <37361@apple.Apple.COM> marc@Apple.COM (Mark Dawson) writes:
>There are rumors that some people actually try to do the difficult job of
>installing new SIMMs themselves (thereby, possibly, voiding your 90-day
>warantee).  As an Apple employee, I must warn you that this is not advisted!
>(Doing it yourself would mean that your SIMMs would have 2-5 year warantees
>vs Apples 90 day, you'd spend $80/1mb vs $120/1mb, and other 
>HORRIBLE consequences that are just too frightening to mention).
>
>--Mark Dawson
>  Apple Service Diagnostic Engineering (though not speaking officially).

Sorry Mark, this isn't a flame to you personally but to people in general
who are always warning about not getting into the inner secrets of their
computer (or another electrical device).  I (and some friends of mine) are
always doing just this and nothing has been going wrong whatsoever. The
chances of electrocuting ICs through a charged finger aren't that big as
people always want you to believe. If you'll be carefull than nothing much
can go wrong (the common sense approach, like making your room humid enough,
not charging yourself on a nylon carpet etc.).
Let's take a dutch example of the consequences of using the method described
in the quoted article.  This means that I (as a student with the necessary
discounts Apple gives me) have to pay three times as much (300$ compared to
900$ for installing 2Mb in my Plus if I bought at an Apple-dealer. Well,
sorry, but I'd rather do something like that myself (and I install this in 4
minutes, without any tools offered to me by several companies but a simple
screwdriver I found somewhere...).
Ok I admit not everybody is fit to do some hobbying with his machine, but 
you don't always need qualified personel to achieve something (on your own
risk of course :) ).

Greetings and happy hobbying,
Annard
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