chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) (08/18/89)
There's finally been a resolution to my ongoing hassles with my Jasmine hard
disk. For those with short memories, here's what happened: in early June, my
Jasmine 20 died. It got sent to Jasmine for repair via ComputerWare. Three
weeks later, I got an estimate of $395 for a disk that I could buy for $450.
Needless, I turned down the repair and asked them to ship the doorstop back.
They confirmed shipment that same day.
Here it is, a little over four weeks later, and the hard disk finally
arrives (four weeks via UPS from San Francisco to Palo Alto. What a
country!). Here's the *really* run part. The disk that they sent back was
not the disk that I sent in for repair. This disk is the old-style metal
case 20 meg, not the new-style plastic case DriveWare. And this disk works.
Anyway, it took over nine weeks from the day I sent it in to repair to the
day I got it back. From everyone I talked to, this kind of stuff isn't
unusual with Jasmine these days, either.
This is not the company I want to rely on for my data (besides, since I had
to get work done in the meantime, I took the crash as an omen and bought a
Mac2). So I now have a surplus 20 meg hard disk (in shipping box, with SCSI
and Power cable *and* the original Jasmine formatter disk, but no manuals).
First $350 can have it (for apple folks, I'm in DA6. It'll be at work with
me Friday morning if someone's interested). Either email me here or call
408-974-0797.
chuq
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[This is myself speaking. No company can control my thoughts.]rekieta@apple.com (Paul Rekieta) (08/21/89)
In article <34093@apple.Apple.COM> chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes: > There's finally been a resolution to my ongoing hassles with my Jasmine hard > disk. For those with short memories, here's what happened: in early June > [more stuff about Jasmine problems] > First $350 can have it Your repair saga was not a very good sales pitch. Paul Rekieta Communications Product Development Apple Computer, Inc.
werner@utastro.UUCP (Werner Uhrig) (08/22/89)
In article <3722@internal.Apple.COM>, rekieta@apple.com (Paul Rekieta) writes: > In <34093@apple.Apple.COM> chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes: > > There's finally been a resolution to my ongoing hassles with my Jasmine > > hard disk. For those with short memories, here's what happened: in June > > [more stuff about Jasmine problems] > > First $350 can have it > > Your repair saga was not a very good sales pitch. ah, but how refreshing to have someone describe what he considers to be a lemon, put a good price on it, and get KUDOS from the "truth in advertising campaign." The golden lemon-squeezer is sure to be yours in San Francisco, Chuq ... ...of course, between now and then, Deep-Apple-core might put light into Apple's hard-disk lemon scandal .... that would be tough competition indeed .... :-) -- -----------> PREFERED RETURN-ADDRESS FOLLOWS <-------------- (ARPA) werner@rascal.ics.utexas.edu (Internet: 128.83.144.1) (UUCP) ..!utastro!werner or ..!uunet!rascal.ics.utexas.edu!werner