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From: karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amigas -- why the 90 day warranty?
Summary: No way; we couldn't even get the keyboard under the thing!
Message-ID: <1989Nov7.174238.5294@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 7 Nov 89 17:42:38 GMT
References: <1989Oct15.021329.2118@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <23196@cup.portal.com> <1989Oct24.193454.23743@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <72137@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <1989Oct31.180252.7798@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <516@sagpd1.UUCP>
Reply-To: karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger)
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In article <516@sagpd1.UUCP> monty@sagpd1.UUCP (Monty Saine) writes:
>In article <1989Oct31.180252.7798@ddsw1.MCS.COM> karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger) writes:
>>Ok, let me redefine that.  A >cheap< plastic case.  The A1000s had horribly
>>cheap plastic used in their construction.  Plastic that was inadaquately
>>reinforced, such that if you did what appeared to be intended (place a
>>monitor on top of the box) the entire thing would deform and bend!
>
>    Which A1000 and monitor are you refering to? I've had my 1080 setting on 
>top of my A1000 for 4 years now and I see no signs of any bending/deforming!

You're the exception.  I have seen three of them, all with the same problem.
All with >original< Commodore monitors.  None of the systems would accept
the keyboard underneath without jamming after a few months.

Perhaps the later units were ok.  These were early ones.

>    Have you been putting a 30" monitor on an A1000 and complaining about
>it bending???????? Get real or better informed or dry up. 

Wow, an ad-hominen attack in c.s.a too!  

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