Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 1st Jun 2006 15:24 UTC, submitted by Tom Dickens

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2005-10-08
> I don't think you remember the Apple III. I don't think you
> "remember" any of this.
Oh I remember it quite well.
> What I remember about the Apple III is that one of my classrooms
> had one, and it worked fine.
Ah... That's your problem then. You were still in grade school back when I was working one of my first IT jobs as a technician. And your experience is based on "One unit we had in a classroom".
And I never said they became a bubbling cauldron of magma. I said they ran so hot that the motherboards warped over time, and caused them to pop chips out their sockets, which then had to be reseated. No, I am not exagerating.