Re: Future of the II line (???)

[uerics@mcl.ucsb.edu (Eric D. Shepherd)]

My IIGS has needed only one repair, and the dealer seriously muffed it.
You'd switch on the machine and the keyboard buffer would instantly be
filled with "a"s.  It would never stop reading "a"s.  I took it all down
the the dealer and said "I think either the keyboard or the mouse is bad".
The fool:

(a) Couldn't get it to boot his 3.5" disk drive, so he replaced my logic
board (the reason for this was that I had no 3.5s at the time, so the CP
was set to boot slot 6).
(b) Told me to take my mouse home.  At this point, he saw no problems and
said it was fixed.

As soon as I hooked up the mouse, of course, the "a"s were back.  The fool
had never seen an ADB mouse before, and didn't realize it connected
through the same port as the keyboard.  Turns out the mouse was shorting
the lines.  Oh, yeah, the service tech. was fired the next day. :)

- Eric S.

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