Get up on the wrong side of the bed this morning? [Was: Re:Notes on repairing the Apple Lisa power supply]

From: Vintage Computer GAWD! <foo_at_siconic.com>
Date: Thu May 25 19:22:14 2000

On Thu, 25 May 2000, Mark Gregory wrote:

> Firstly, Lisas are relatively common; thousands were built and thousands
> survive. It's not like we were talking about, say, an Apple I, where only
> 600-odd were made, and only a couple of hundred survive. The stakes in
> using slightly risky trouble-shooting techniques to fix a Lisa are low.

Fact-check: according to Wozniak 200 were made.

Now back to the flame fest...

FWIW, my thoughts:

R.D. Davis was way out of line with his initial reply to Joe. Keep that
sort of non-productive ranting to private e-mail. If you wanted to
suggest a better way of troubleshooting, offer helpful and useful advice.
All you've done is started a flame war that will result in singed egos.

Sellam International Man of Intrigue and Danger
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