10 Jun
2006
10 Jun
'06
11:49 p.m.
What you're possibly missing here is that
people like me choose a product
_because of the availability of scheamtics and repair parts_. I actually
tracked down and bought a genuine Teac floppy drive for this PC becasue I
could get a service manual for it. Said drive cost over 10 times as much
as a non-name, no-docs drive from the local PC shop.
Mind sharing that manual? :o) I like your line of tought, but imagine a service manual for a simple thing like a mouse ;o)
Actaully, I don't have a mouse on this PC (probably the only PC in the
world not to have one, but...). But for things like mice it's often
quicker just to trace out the scheamtic than to do battle trying to get a
schemaitc from the manufactuer. I know I included schematics of the
appropriate mice when I traced out diagrams for the PERQ AGW3300 and the
HP IPC>
I have never (well, not in the last 20 years,
anyhow) 'mucked up a PCB'
trying to repair it. Yes, you can generally tell where I've been (hand
soldering does look different from wave soldering), but I do not lift
traces, rip out vias, and all the other things that certain people manage
to do.
And if I muck that, (expletive deleted) them, because it is mine, bought
with my (expletive deleted) money!!! What do they have to do with that? :oP