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I agree, that's why I warned for it.

Some of them are simply not reliable. That doesn't mean they *will* 
have problems after transport or having been put on its side, it just 
means they *can* have such problems.
If I remember well there's a rock band that still uses EIIs today on 
stage; during the gig breaks the crew members have to open the EIIs 
to make sure that all connections and chips are still 100% OK.

I have transported my EIIs for more than 200 km without any problem, 
but I also have moved them from one table to another resulting in the 
time consuming "push the IC and Molex" procedure.

My experience shows that moving an EII is a gamble, either a positive 
one or a negative one. 
I remember a ride of 400 km with an EII on the backseat of my car. 
When I picked it up the seller showed me how one of the floppy drives 
didn't work anymore (the motor spinned but resulted in read errors 
all the time). Besides this problem however, the machine was perfect.
 
After the 400 km drive, the floppy drive was still defective but the 
keyboard suddenly also had major problems: a few keys didn't trigger 
anymore. When I wanted to investigate and fix the problems, the 
machine suddenly fell of the table (a fall of half a meter, it fell 
on my feet :-). 
My first reaction was one of complete panic: given the known 
fragility of the machine I was convinced I destroyed the whole thing.
But I was pleasantly surprised: the 'accident' resulted in a keyboard 
which was 100% OK again and on top of that the floppy drive also 
seemed to be fully operational again. The only "repair action" I 
performed was letting the machine fall !
This happened more than a year ago and until today this EII is still 
in fully operational mode, in fact it is even more reliable than my 
other EII which never experienced this kind of abuse.

But this doesn't mean that anyone with EII problems should throw his 
EII on the ground of course :-)

///E-Synthesist


--- In emulatorII-list@yahoogroups.com, "elmbeatz" <elmbeatz@...> 
wrote:
>
> 
> "Surely the risk of IC's and molex connectors coming loose is very
> very low"
> 
> - NO! No, it's not. In fact it's very high, at least that's my
> experience...  Of course, they're not becoming so loose that they 
fall
> out or such, but their pins' contacts to the sockets are VERY
> sensitive. Even if they seem to be socketed correctly, there's great
> chance that something happens to 'em, when the unit is being moved
> with abrasion (correct word?)
> I got mine working perfectly, but after I took it on a 250 KM ride 
on
> the backseat of my car (a cushioned backseat, and I was driving with
> caution) - nothing worked properly any more - ugh. I had to reseat 
and
> reconnect everything inside. Pain in the ass I can tell. It's 
perfect
> again now, but I surely would avoid any risk of exposing it to
> physical shocks, even slight ones.
> 
> Greetz,
> Elm.
>