anderson%Rand-Unix@sri-unix.UUCP (03/07/84)
From: anderson@Rand-Unix (Robert_Anderson) After running my two-year-old IBM PC about 6 hrs. a day, 5 days a week with no problems (except expected ones in the 3rd party Daisywheel printer) I suddenly had some component on my motherboard (don't know which) go, requiring a $400 replacement (it would be $800 without turn in of my old motherboard), followed several weeks later by a short in the flyback transformer in my IBM monochrome display (Computerworld says its unrepairable, because it would have to be sent back to IBM, and would cost as much as a new one). I haven't been hit by lightning lately, or anything else that would have caused this rash of problems. I conclude that some of the components have a lifetime of about 2 years. What I conclude from this is that it might pay to get some sort of service agreement on your PC after a year or so, to handle the big stuff when it hits; what seems rock solid now won't last foever. By the way, does anyone know if the flyback transformer in an IBM monochrome display is a common electronic part that can be procured at an electronics outlet? Bob Anderson