goose@surf.sics.bu.oz (Ralph Schwarten) (09/03/90)
I am soon to be taking ownrship of a NeXT computer. Because I live in a country where there are no NeXT dealerships etc, I am worried about getting support for failed hardware. Actually my main concern is not so much getting parts after the machine bombs, but the machine bombing in the first place. So here is my question... Could you people out in NeXT land give me an idea as to the machine's physical relability ? Are there a lot of NeXTs sitting at NeXT getting repaired ? What parts are likely to die ? Have a lot of machines died ? Are there common problems with certain components ? Lastly, a bit of info about the laser's power. If I live in a country that supplies 240 V at the the mains the cube switches up .. OK so what about the printer ? It supports only a switch slectable rate of 110 or 220v. Do I therfore switch the printer up to 220 and hope it doesn't explode ? I have heard conflicting stories that the printer takes it's power from the cube, if this is the case, will the Cube supply 220v to the peinter if the printer is set to that ? *basically* can someone tell me what I need to do, set or otherwise hack, to get a stable machine and printer at 240 v Thanks in advance Ralph Schwarten Dept. Computing and Information Technology Bond University Gold Coast Qld Australia e-mail:goose@hal.nmg.bu.oz.au
barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) (09/04/90)
In article <1291@surf.sics.bu.oz> goose@surf.sics.bu.oz (Ralph Schwarten) writes: >What parts are likely to die ? The optical drive; and its not dust---it needs replacing due to mechanical problems (or so the tech told me). Rather common---I know one fellow who had his od replaced at least 3 times. -- Barry Merriman UCLA Dept. of Math UCLA Inst. for Fusion and Plasma Research barry@math.ucla.edu (Internet)
nf0a+@andrew.cmu.edu (Nathan W. Fullerton) (09/05/90)
I heard from the PC repair people here at CMU (we've had cubes on campus for a _long_ time) that the NeXTs are "Painfully reliable." Nathan Fullerton