[rescue] The fat lady. . .

[Bill Bradford]

On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 01:21:54PM -0800, Rick Hamell wrote:
> 	There was a local company around here called Frankenstein
> computers. The place was run by two gay bikers. When you took your PC in
> they took it the back and started disassembling it. Even if it was for a
> software problem! They then hot glued all the components back in, and you
> were lucky if you got the same hardware back. 

I'm proud to say that I've *never* taken any PC-class system I've owned
to some place to get "repaired"; I've simply done it myself. [1].
Cheaper, and I know what is being done to the machine.  I cant remember
ever having bought a pre-built system [2] either; I've bought a few used
PCs from eBay, friends, goodwill, etc, but they immediately get stripped
down for parts and/or rebuilt into something better with stuff out of the
parts box.

Bill

[1] Except for a flaky screen on a PowerBook 150; I didnt want to mess
    with taking apart a laptop, so I took it to the local Apple service
    center and paid them $40 to fix the loose cable.

[2] from Dell, Gateway, etc.  I hate the thought of "you bought this system
    like this, any changes to the hardware config will void your warranty".
    I rarely keep a video card in any given system for more than six to nine
    months before getting a better one...  I dont know if my G4 Cube counts
    as a "pre-built system"; I cant exactly build one of my own out of parts,
    although I've upgraded it from 256meg to 1G RAM and added lots of external
    firewire/USB peripherals..

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Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX