Re: any statistics on declining PC sales?

From	keithr0 <user@account.invalid>
Newsgroups	aus.computers
Subject	Re: any statistics on declining PC sales?
Date	2015-09-08 20:42 +1000
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On 7/09/2015 10:51 PM, Clocky wrote:
> On 7/09/2015 7:19 PM, SolomonW wrote:
>> On Mon, 7 Sep 2015 08:50:59 +0000 (UTC), news13 wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 07 Sep 2015 15:30:28 +0800, Clocky wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> I always find it amusing that these PC assemblers and part swappers
>>>> call
>>>> themselves "technicians" when they wouldn't even know which end of a
>>>> soldering iron is the handle.
>>>
>>>
>>> If it requires a "soldering iron" to repair, then it is uneconomic
>>> repair. Rarely been otherwise in PCs.
>>
>> I have repaired many PCs and never used a soldering iron.
>>
>
> You're not a technician, just a parts swapper then.
>
You're 15 years out of date. I work for a major supplier of equipment in 
the mainframe area, outside the factory there wouldn't be a single 
soldering iron or oscilloscope in the worldwide service organisation. 
There is no need for scopes because the boxes largely diagnose 
themselves, and you don't try and fix multilayer boards without 
specialist equipment.

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