RE: [microsound] g3 recall

[Steven Taylor <StevenT@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oh well. It can only make Microsound shows more visually entertaining...
And maybe whip up some audience participation. Rock and Roll.

> > yup.. it's a recall on powerbook G3 wallstreet and lombard power
> > adapters.. (not the whole computer!)... they tend to catch on fire,
> > aparently..
> >
> > it could have been a great introduction to pyrotechnics at
> > laptop/microsound shows!
> >
> > http://exchange.info.apple.com/exchange/
> >
> > the exchange is free and can be taken care of on the website.. you
> > will need the serial # for your powerbook and the adapter. and they
> > will tell you if yours is one that should be recalled....
> >
> > mine was!.. ack..
> 
> Mine was one of the ones that actually fried!
> 
> It was a great smelly smoke show that it did.
> 
> It was weird, they were not very co-coperative
> about warranting or replacing the adapter
> when I first spoke with them.  After that they
> were all over me trying to get it replaced etc.
> and making sure I was happy.
> 
> I wonder how many titaniums are going to
> spontaneously combust?
> 
> Kerry
> 
> 
> --
> Kerry Uchida
> Vancouver,Canada
> 
> Although Mr. Spielberg was reluctant to assess the impact 
> that his generation
> of filmmakers has had, he has very definite ideas of where 
> movies have come
> since the 70's ? and what have been the most important 
> technical and creative
> innovations that have changed them.
> 
> "To me, it's sound," Mr. Spielberg said. "To me, the biggest 
> breakthrough in
> the last 50 years, certainly since Cinerama in the 50's, is 
> the sound. When I
> think of the sonic experience of the first time I heard Dolby stereo
> demonstrated at the American Film Institute years and years 
> ago, it was then
> that I realized that we are making sound pictures.
> We could do a lot with sound, we could even tell a story with 
> sound. And when
> we brought the best of sound together with the best of 
> visuals in the 80's and
> 90's, you were able to show audiences so much more of the 
> movie than they
> otherwise would have experienced."
> 
> Now Playing:
> 
> DJ Aural
> http://www.mp3.com/DJAural
> 
> Technomorph
> http://www.technomorph.com
> 
> MircroVan Ra
> 
> 
> 
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