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- From: wizard@galstar.com (David Templeton)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: High-end Amiga PRICES, PowerPC
- Date: 31 Jan 1996 20:12:44 GMT
- Organization: Galaxy Star - Northeastern Oklahoma Internet
- Message-ID: <1629.6604T544T2200@galstar.com>
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- >On 26 Jan 1996, Michael Kraemer wrote:
- >640x480 (since the refresh on 800x600 was horrible). The motherboard
- >is so horridly designed that three of the five expansion slots are
- >unusable except by half-length cards because of the CPU fan. I
- >installed one version of '95 after another, ending up at the final CD
- >release version, which is installed now. It won't let me hook into
- >the school's network; tech support have been trying for 5 months now
- >("I don't understand. This works on _almost_ everyone else's
- >systems.."). Occasionally my mouse will stop working for no reason
- >until I 'reinstall' it. The system thrashes the hard drive for a
- >good ten seconds just to load the piece of shit text editor
- >"Notepad", and crashes consistantly.
-
- Sounds similar to my troubles with Win '95. Try faxing from within
- Excel if you really want to srew up some stuff! BTW that feature
- alone was one of the main reasons we switched from 3.1 to 95. Piece
- of unstable crap works one day and not the next!
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-
- >> My A3000 I bought 3 years ago was DM 4000,- ($2700) and I never
- >> ever had any trouble with it although I use it nearly daily.
-
- >Are they that much more expensive in Europe? I paid $1199 for my
- >3000T
- >(030/5MB/240MB) in March 1993..
-
- I bought my A2000 rev 4.1 second hand in 1991. Since then I have
- upgraded it myself to rev 4.5 wb2.1 ect.. This machine ran 24/7 for
- over a year when I had my BBS up and still gets used 1-3 a day and
- has never had a hardware related failure. It built like a TANK!
-
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- A penny for your thoughts...$200 to act it out.
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