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- From: ejszul@obscurity.pd.mcs.net (Eric Szulczewski)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: AmiTech Press Release on 1200 Surfer
- Date: Tue, 16 Jan 96 16:29:23 CST
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- In a message dated 01-13-96 17-32 Starblazer writes:
-
- S> The '600 was kind of a bad idea, but I agree that the C16 & +4 were
- S> pointless! Why the hell bother to spend money on development of something
- S> with no use. (doorstop maybe). The C128 was only o.k., I had one, and it
- S> seemed like a c64 with 128k ram, a z-80 card slapped into it, and a CHEAP
- S> 80-column card hacked in there too. Fast mode was cool, but CBM should
- S> have put money into a 2mhz Vic chip instead of wasting time on the 16 &
- S> +4.
-
- You know, you guys are right about the 16 and the Plus/4. How I could
- have forgot about those is beyond me. Actually, I'd put the 600 right
- up there with them. Maybe I should have said that the 600 was the
- biggest piece of Amiga crap C= ever put out. The 128 was a valiant
- attempt to extend the life of the 8-bit system, but the handwriting was
- already on the wall with 16-bit systems.
-
- S> Now...onto the A600, I'm stuck with one.
-
- My sympathies.
-
- S> They could have at least socketed the CPU though, that way I could have
- S> given it the royal ten-dollar 68010 upgrade. But the geniuses at CBM
- S> decided to surface mount it instead.
-
- One of the big reasons why I denigrate the 600. Yes, surface-mounting
- is cheaper, but the ability to replace socketed chips is one great
- thing about the Amiga that I truly admire. When my phone line was hit
- by lightning a year and a half ago, it fried my modem, then went
- through my 2000, blowing out the serial chips and damaging the CIAs and
- the Paula. I felt good about being able to immediately replace the
- CIAs and Paula from a dead 2000 that I had handy, and only the serial
- chips had to be replaced professionally. The repair facility (which
- has gone out of business, tragically) was smart enough to put the
- serial chips on sockets for me. AT should keep the DIY repair nature
- of the Amiga. It really minimizes dead time, and it shows that someone
- trusts a user to actually do minor repairs on a system, warranty
- violation or not.
-
- S> Hmmm.. Maybe CBM should have put the money for A300/Junebug (A600)
- S> development into the A1200/4000 instead.
-
- The worst part was that the 3000+'s development was curtailed in favor
- of the 600. That is truly a sin of omission.
-
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