On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 09:29, Lee Einer wrote:
> Hi, all-
> 
> A little off topic, apologies in advance-
> 
> A friend of mine in PA has some major grief with his IMac. He tells me 
> that he has only two USB ports on the thing, apparently no serial ports, 
> and that both of them are now trashed. He says the physical ports pretty 
> much fell apart, and will not even hold a cable any more. His local 
> repair shop quoted him $500 plus labor to fix (apparently they were just 
> going to do a motherboard swap?) which he does not have. At this point, 
> he can't even get the data off his hard drive, as both the keyboard and 
> mouse are USB.
> 
> Is there any low-cost fix or work-around for an IMac in this condition?
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No fix for iMac other than replacing motherboard - USB connects are
directly to motherboard.

Hard drive can be removed and inserted into G3/G4 and data can be copied
directly to another drive and thus allow for abandonement of iMac
without repair - dealer who sells him new Mac might be willing to do
that.

Craig