When volume shipments began in earnest in March 1981, approximately 20 percent of all Apple IIIs were dead on arrival because chips fell out of sockets during shipment.
The quaint hiss and crackle of the blunted needle as it gently rose and fell with the warp of the album sounded like the ether, through which the dead were hopelessly calling to us.
After he collapsed into convulsions and fell into unconsciousness, paramedics were called and they took him to a local hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.