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- From: FRACYON@dirac.physics.jmu.edu (Ali Fracyon)
- Subject: Re: A1200
- In-Reply-To: leo@dcs.warwick.ac.uk's message of Mon, 14 Dec 1992 23:24:14 GMT
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- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 16:27:22 GMT
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- In <1992Dec14.232414.23996@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> leo@dcs.warwick.ac.uk writes:
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- > Apparently CBMs answer to the Falcon, the A1200 is now available in the
- > UK. The most likely release date for the Falcon would seem to be February.
- > Its not all bad news though, looking through comp.sys.amiga.hardware reveals
- > that the A1200s are being shipped without half the manuals, without the
- > promised adaptor to use VGA monitors, without any hardware clock (apparently
- > all the official documentation claiming that there is one on the A1200 is
- > is wrong.), the sound output level is so high that it distorts unless you put
- > a resisitor across it and there are serious problems with the TV modulator.
- > As one Amiga person put it:
- >
- > "Commodore has released a new machine one month before Christmas to try to
- > sell as many as possible, but they were really NOT READY to launch it."
- >
- > - Leo.
-
-
- And don't forget the A4000s with their fans being put in backwards.
-
- ...wait a minute, I own an Amiga, I should be defending them...
-
- All good companies do it. My friend just bought a HP that has the place of
- its '(' ')' and '{' '}' and maybe '[' ']' keys switched.
-
- C= has always had problems with missing chips or loose chips in their
- computers. The official explanation was that their was a bumb outside
- of one of their main warehouses and truck drivers that drove too fast
- over this bumb knocked the chips out. See, it can be explained. Really.
-
- Ali Fracyon
- Temperstorm, June '92, Compute's AmigaResource
- The Fly, October '92, Compute's AmigaResource
-
- -My views only; not MDI's; not JMU's. -Congratulations Finland. 75 years!
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