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Rare Powerbook 100 recall letter from Apple

Posted by: Cedsrepairs on 2021-12-29 03:31:45 Hi everyone, I was lucky enough to find this letter in some item I recently bought out of Ebay It's about the recall Apple had to make in 1992 for 60000 Powerbook 100, which made the stock price fall 2% the same day As far as I can see, there are no pictures of that letter anywhere on the whole internet, so well I thought what better place to share it than 68KMLA; so here it is,

Posted by: cheesestraws on 2021-12-29 03:41:23 Ooh, I've never seen that before!

Posted by: MOS8_030 on 2021-12-29 07:06:59 Very cool letter. Interesting about that shorting issue. I saw a similar problem with a G3 Powerbook years later. It was a "Lombard" I believe. The hard drive cable ran under the drive and rubbed against the case until it shorted and burned a hole in the bottom of the case. The call to support got interesting once I mentioned "fire" they transferred me to a special rep who quickly agreed to replace the PowerBook and had me return the damaged unit to Apple. I know Apple was aware of this issue because later models (Pismo?) had a plastic strip added to the HD cable in that location.

Posted by: desertrout on 2021-12-29 11:07:52 Coool! I had to check my pb100 serial lol. All good. I wonder what caused the short?

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