jsp@key.COM (James Preston) (11/15/89)
Hey, speaking of Apple's warranties, I was looking through some of my old
magazines the other day (to finally throw some out) and I found one called
_Future Life_, cover dated February 1980 (yes, almost ten years ago). Flipping
through it, I found this great section on home computers for the '80s. After
the chuckles from reading about the TRS-80 Model 1 ("includes cassette recorder
and is availabe with two sizes of memory (4K and 16K)"), the Commodore Pet for
$800, the "Renaissance Machine" (the Compucolor II), and the TI-99/4 (the
"long-awaited entry of that company in the home computer field"), I came to
the Apple II and Apple II Plus ("comes with 16K RAM (expandable to 48K) of
Integer BASIC (a fast language designed for games and high-speed graphics)").
The most interesting quote, however, was the following:
A testimonial to the confidence that rides with this machine is the
blunt fact that it is the only micro-computer with a one-year warranty
(virtually everyone else has a 90-day warranty).
Gee, I guess there's no other conclusion but that Apple no longer has
confidence in their machines, right? ;-)
(Love that word "blunt" in there.)
--James Prestonjoseph@elbereth.rutgers.edu (Seymour Joseph) (11/17/89)
James, Yep, the old Apple ][ used to have a 1 Year warranty. Mine did. It seems only the new mac owners are getting screwed because these new fangled Macintosh computers are so much less reliable than the original Apple ][. :-) I believe my brother and I are personally responsible for the change to a 90 day warranty. It seems that 90 days is about the length of time a pair of Apple ][ paddles (pre-joystick) took to wear out from playing space invaders and alien rain (galaxian). We wore out 3 or 4 sets during the warranty and our dealer was getting tired of replacing them for free. Seymour Joseph P.S. The revision 0 Apple ][ I Purchased in 1978 still works. We had to buy third-party paddles though.... ;-)