Stuart wrote: > Hardly 'just about everyone'! many Compact List members > are in Europe in general, with some in the UK.
It's frustrating to have a SE/30 suffering from "Simasimac" and to know that if you ask for spare parts for it, most of the people who reply live in America, where the international postage costs make it impractical for them to send you a whole new logic board which they were otherwise prepared to send to you for free. Ebay seems to be my only source of fixables, and buying something on there that is "for spares only: caveat emptor" requires even more optimism than asking for help on the Compact Macs list. > In any case, an SE/30 is an SE/30 wherever it is! Not when it comes to the cheap exchange by snail mail of any piece of hardware larger than a programmers' switch. Of course, that's the nice thing about the universal power supply that went into every mac from the SE onwards (with the possible exception of some LC models?) A 110 volt Mac Plus power/sweep board is wired up differently from a 230 volt one: if you're lucky, you can solder in a wire that allows you to use the second pair of high-voltage capacitors for 240V operation; if not, the second pair of capacitors aren't even on the board. One thing I've been meaning to do for quite some time is to create a new usenet group, comp.sys.mac.hardware.classic-68k (or whatever you want to call it). I should be able to use the relatively large size of the Compact, Vintage and Quadra lists to provide evidence that it is a popular enough subject to be worth forcing through. But what I'd like to know is, with the group uk.comp.sys.mac catering for the needs of UK mac users (with emphasis on the G3, G4 and above), why do people continue to use this mailing list? Is the advantage of idiot control (no spammers, address harvesters or cross-platform flame wars) more inportant than the opportunity to get out there and provide help to new Mac users in a forum that is much easier to find? -- Mac UK is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Mac UK list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/mac-uk.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-uk%40mail.maclaunch.com/> iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
