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From: greyelf@wpi.wpi.edu (Michael J Pender)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: What to do with the GS
Message-ID: <8569@wpi.wpi.edu>
Date: 19 Feb 90 04:01:31 GMT
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Reply-To: greyelf@wpi.wpi.edu (Michael J Pender)
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In article <1126@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU> bchurch@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Bob Church) writes:
>How do you "break in" a piece of electronic equipment? A warranties 
>purpose is to protect the consumer from defects during manufacture or 
>perhaps shipping. The accepted rule for any electronic equipment is that
>defects of this type will show up within 90 days, usually much sooner. 
>Other problems, such as those caused by environment, rough       
>treatment etc are not what the warranty was designed to deal with. 
>I think that one factor leading to confusion in this area are companies
>that offer "extended warranties". What they are really selling are service
>contracts, a very different animal.  

A bad chip will fail as it slowly melts out.  Either by driving the chip to
its operating limit (running your computer as hard as you ever will)
or for long periods of contiguous time you can cause a bad chip or a 
bad connection to rear its ugly head.

Modern electronics are actually made of smoke, and if you let the smoke
out they don't work anymore.