r/electronics • u/Linker3000 • 5d ago

News iFixit (@iFixit@mastodon.social)

https://mastodon.social/@iFixit/114263376609300795
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u/Fritzschmied 5d ago

I know this is a April fools joke but honestly. I would buy that.

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u/Wait_for_BM 5d ago

Not the first time for these kind of fixes. :P

https://www.techjunkie.com/apple-iii-drop/

These problems affected Apple’s own employees, too, with one of the company’s early engineers, Daniel Kottke, picking up his Apple III and slamming it down on the desk out of frustration. To his surprise, the computer “jumped back to life.”

Apple’s support engineers offered Apple III customers a similar solution:

Apple recommended users facing problems with the Apple III lift the computer two inches and drop it, as this would set the circuits back in place.