colleen@telesoft.com (Colleen Wirth @second) (11/30/89)
Greetings,
Someone on another one of the *.mac.* newsgroups politely (thank-you)
suggested that I post my question here as it's hardware related. I
missed this group when I posted last time.
Also, please mail your responses to me since our news is really flakey
and people are sending me mail quoting netnews replys to my question
that I haven't even gotten to read!
A few weeks ago I was logging into work from home when my Macintosh
screen died on me. I have the original Macintosh 128K that has been
upgraded to 512K. The Mac is about 5 years old.
My dad took the computer to work and his technicians took a look at
it. I guess there's supposed to be some silly restriction on opening
up your Mac computer? Well, I didn't care, since I've been fixing the
Apple IIe for several years by myself, and I'm no technician. Anyway,
they said that the problem was that the "flyback transformer" that
powers the picture tube was broken. They were going to fix it for me
when, low and behold, this is a proprietary Apple Macintosh part. I
called Computer Land (or something like that) and was told that I had
to swap the whole power supply board, even though only 1 chip was
bad. This was fine until they said it was going to cost me $250.00.
That wasn't fine. First, I've been told that my Mac isn't even worth
$250.00, and, second, I'm a very poor writer and cannot afford to pay
that much to fix my computer.
So, what I want to know is, do I have any other options? Does anybody
out there have a Macintosh that is broken for another reason, and would
you be willing to sell me your flyback transformer? I know this is a
proprietary part, but does anyone know where I can buy one anyway? Other
than that one problem, the Mac works fine (though the disk drives tend
to stick and I have to eject the disks with a paper clip).
All suggestions welcome! Thanks, Colleen
p.s. Please excuse me if this is an inappropriate news group. I had no
idea which one(s) to post to. Please don't send me hate mail, it
does makes me feel bad.jdhill@bbn.com (Jack D. Hill) (11/30/89)
There is a place in Waltham Mass. called Pre-Owned Electronics that carries replacement parts for the entire Apple line and I believe they have flyback transformers. Pre-Owned Electronics, Inc. 30 Clematis Ave. Waltham, MA 02154 (617) 891-6851 891-3556 (FAX) Jack Hill