Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!psuvax1!rutgers!att!oucsace!bchurch From: bchurch@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Bob Church) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Lasers are not reliable? (was Re: Apple C+) Summary: location Message-ID: <957@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU> Date: 25 Dec 89 23:40:46 GMT References: <8799.infoapple.net@pro-generic> <954@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU> <15210@boulder.Colorado.EDU> Organization: Ohio University CS Dept., Athens Lines: 37 In article <15210@boulder.Colorado.EDU>, kuo@boulder.Colorado.EDU (KUO ANDY Y) writes: > > In article <954@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU> bchurch@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Bob Church) writes: > >> to upgrade a //c to //c+, sell your //c and with the money buy a Lasre > >> 128EX/2. > > > >Hmm, we tried that once. I went to Columbus to help a friend buy a Laser. > >Micro-Center informed us that they had sold twenty lasers that year > >and that so far three had been returned because of defects. None of these > > Strange, my friends and I have never had any problems with them at all. > > I don't understand, why would anyone need help buying a Laser. :-( > Just like buying a IIc, everything is built in, you don't need to > worry about anything basically. > Yes, that was very bad syntax on my part. My friend needed help in finding the dealer that sold the lasers. However, the rest of the post is an accurate description of what happened when he tried to buy one. I suppose that the dealer may have been lying, in which case he blew a sale for no apparent reason. Still, it was not exactly encouraging. Bob Church att!oucsace!bchurch A f e w lines for the mailer