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From: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Harddisks, NeXT quality etc...
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Date: 26 Feb 90 22:34:22 GMT
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In a recent posting I complained about my Wren VI not working
correctly and later found out that some pins were bent.
I suggested that this might have been an error of one of the
CAM-robots at NeXT. However someone pointed out to me, that
it is unlikely that the robots would do such a thing as

> This happens all the time with 50-pin, 1/10 inch
> center headers if the plug is removed or inserted at an angle.

Now I read in FORTUNE (2/26/90)an article about the NeXT factory.
There are a few nice pictures, and some interesting facts
about this factory, and well it also says that final assembly
i.e. plugging the whole thing together is done manually

=> it really wasn't the robots mistake... :)

Ronald
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