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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!gdt!mapmh
- From: mapmh@gdr.bath.ac.uk (M Hagger)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: A1200
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.134320.24612@gdr.bath.ac.uk>
- Date: 16 Dec 92 13:43:20 GMT
- References: <1992Dec14.232414.23996@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> <1992Dec15.162722.25347@hub.cs.jmu.edu>
- Organization: School of Mathematics, University of Bath, UK
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- In the referenced article, FRACYON@dirac.physics.jmu.edu (Ali Fracyon) writes:
- >In <1992Dec14.232414.23996@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> leo@dcs.warwick.ac.uk writes:
- >
- >> [deletions about A1200 problems]
-
- >
- [deletions]
- >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.
- >
- Does this mean that the 'p' and 'b' keys on your keyboard are swapped?
- (bumb = bump?)
-
- Seriously though, does anyone else have any interesting stories about
- the first shippings of computers that were seriously flawed? And the
- companies attempt at explaining them? Brings to mind the "why was there
- no blitter in early ST's" question.......
-
- Mark
-