Re: PC or Mac?

[Fortran <fortrandragon@hotmail.com>]

My glass typewriter shows Byron Q. Desnoyers Winmill, 
<byron@b60z27hbb464i.ab.hsia.telus.net> pondering...
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> Still, I have run into some unexcusable problems: VESA cards (yes, I
> know these are long gone) tended to pop out of expansion slots due
> to poorly designed mainboards or cases; clock batteries which were
> soldered to the pins of an IC (which were terribly delicate in their
> own right), which meant an expensive replacement or a delicate
> soldering job (the computer *would not* boot without a functional
> battery).

	Didn't the Apple /// refuse to start if a power light on the 
keyboard burned out?  We won't go into dropping the whole thing to 
reseat the chips -- which I've seen done to the Apple ][ as well in a 
small effort to keep this vaguely on topic.  ;-)

	The curse of electronics is you can run into bad parts from 
*everyone*.

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