I do understand the warranty sticker. Say we have the average computer buyer. He has a screw driver and mostly knows how to use it. He also went to Radio Shack ( long gone 🙁 ) and bought a cheap soldering iron. He is now fully equipped to repair what ever is wrong with his box. ( obviously not at Tony's level of competence ) He takes the cover off and has no idea what he is looking at or what he is looking for. ( I think we have all been there at one time ) He sees something with a screw driver slot. He has a screw driver. Perhaps all it needs is a minor adjustment. He turns the screw one way, and nothing changes. He turns it the other way and, pop, some smoke comes out of the other side of the chassis. Oh well, it is under warranty so he goes to sends it in for warranty repair but, dang!, he broke that warranty seal. If we want to have it repaired under warranty, we don't need to know what failed ( just curious ). If we expect to fix it ourselves, we bought it. There is value in learning how to fix it ourselves but the price is the warranty sticker. I except that and will open it up anyway. I just can't stop myself. I need to know what failed and often can fix it myself. Dwight
________________________________ From: Wayne S via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2023 9:45 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk@classiccmp.org> Cc: Wayne S <wayne.su...@hotmail.com> Subject: [cctalk] Re: Silly question about S-100 and video monitors I think you might be confusing a law argument with a logic argument. 🤓 The 2 are not related. Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 31, 2023, at 21:00, Tony Duell via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 9:53 PM Chris Zach via cctalk > <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: >> >> Which is weird, since Radio Shack was renowned for putting schematic >> diagrams on so many of their products. My Flavoradio still has the >> schematic on it if a transistor goes bad.... > > And they would sell spare parts and service manuals for just about > everything they sold. > > Their pocket computers were of course essentially re-badged Sharp and > Casio machines. Getting the service manuals from the original > companies was moderately harder than getting defence secrets. Getting > the manuals from Tandy/Radio Shack was simply a matter of ordering > them at the local shop. > > -tony
