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When I was in High School our school district had a ton of computers by state grant (1 for every 2 students). One summer (2005 if I remember correctly) the IBM
by cududa 9y ago
When I was in High School our school district had a ton of computers by state grant (1 for every 2 students). One summer (2005 if I remember correctly) the IBM desktops all started popping capacitors. Me and a few technically inclined friends got a nice summer job out of identifying affected machines, gathering them up, re-imaging them, and replacing them around the district.
Funny to learn this was such a widespread issue
- baddox 9y agoI worked tech support for my small public school district when I was a senior in high school in 2004-5. I must have replaced at least a hundred motherboards with this issue. Apparently they were covered under warranty (mostly HP computers, I believe), but I wonder if there was any conpensation for labor. Those things are tedious to replace in the slightly odd form factors they use for education/enterprise workstations. Not that my labor was costing the district too much ($6.50 an hour, which I considered a very generous premium above minimum wage.)