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Re: A1200

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From: Ali Fracyon
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 16:27
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In <1992Dec14.232414.23996@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> leo@dcs.warwick.ac.uk writes:

> 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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