Re: any statistics on declining PC sales?

From	"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	aus.computers
Subject	Re: any statistics on declining PC sales?
Date	2015-09-22 08:58 +1000
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"Clocky" <notgonna@happen.com> wrote in message 
news:55ffab83$0$11094$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com...
> On 21/09/2015 7:00 AM, Rod Speed wrote:
>>
>>
>> "Clocky" <notgonna@happen.com> wrote in message
>> news:55ff3781$0$1642$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com...
>>> On 10/09/2015 3:52 AM, Rod Speed wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "Clocky" <notgonna@happen.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:55efe9b6$0$11109$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com...
>>>>> On 8/09/2015 1:15 PM, news13 wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, 08 Sep 2015 07:08:01 +0800, Clocky wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> If it requires a "soldering iron" to repair, then it is 
>>>>>>>>>> uneconomic
>>>>>>>>>> repair. Rarely been otherwise in PCs.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Used to be commonplace in the early days
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Like hell it was with the PC.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> There were successful personal computers before the IBM "PC".
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Like the Educ-8?
>>>>>> Or the Microbee or other DIY projects?
>>>>>> Or the myriad of CPM luggables?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Not a POS IMS by any chance?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Or the Commodores, Atari's, TRS80's and Apples, Amstrads etc...
>>>>
>>>> Fuck all of those were ever repaired using a
>>>> soldering iron except for the power supply
>>>> and a few connectors easy to break etc.
>>>
>>>
>>> Complete nonsense.
>>
>> Your sig is sposed to be last with a line with just -- on it in front of
>> it.
>>
>>> They were always always diagnosed and repaired using desoldering
>>> stations and soldering irons to replace DIL IC's.
>>
>> Complete and utter pig ignorant drivel. Fuck all of those ever failed.
>
>
> You have no fucking idea on that, obviously.

Did a hell of a lot more of it than you ever did, fuckwit.

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