Path: utzoo!censor!becker!douglee
From: douglee@becker.UUCP (Doug Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A1000 Rejuvenator Project
Message-ID: <816@becker.UUCP>
Date: 25 Aug 89 03:08:05 GMT
References: <18566.24DF49E1@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> <3743@csd4.milw.wisc.edu> <1775@ucqais.uc.edu> <800@becker.UUCP> <5848@tekigm2.MEN.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: douglee@becker.UUCP (Doug Lee)
Organization: G. T. S., Toronto, Ontario
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In article <5848@tekigm2.MEN.TEK.COM> phils@tekigm2.MEN.TEK.COM (Philip E Staub) writes:
>In article <800@becker.UUCP> douglee@becker.UUCP (Doug Lee) writes:
My stuff about bad documentation and orphan hardware deleted
>Sadly, I'm afraid I reached that conclusion quite a while ago. Try to
>get an A1000 internal drive repaired (or even aligned!) sometime. I had the

Bring it to my house for alignment :-) You should be able to get at least 
this much done at a repair shop as opposed to a board swapping place.

>misfortune of needing to do this and eventually had to resort to buying a
>new drive.
One of the really GREAT things Commodore did with the 2000 was to use 
generic disk drives without the custom eject button. I forgot to mention in 
my last post that I almost always recommend real commodore stuff to customers.
(I run a small Amiga business selling 3rd-party software and providing 
conhsultation/user support). Even though I could make money selling 3rd party
stuff as opposed to C= since I am NOT a dealer, I can at least repair the 
stuff when it reappears as C= always seems to make parts and schematics 
available eventually. I would rather have a 2090A card than some gee-whiz
super zappo controller with ten times the performance until it dies leaving
you with a bookend. (sort of like the tortoise & hare story:-). 

>-Phil
>-- 
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>Phil Staub, phils@tekigm2.MEN.TEK.COM
>Definition: BUG: A feature (present or absent) which is (at best) inconvenient.


-- 
Doug Lee
douglee@becker
416-461-5357