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From: akcs.clemon@wcbcs (Craig Lemon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A500 resets itself
Message-ID: <[260d5b69:3135.15]comp.sys.amiga;1@wcbcs>
Date: 26 Mar 90 04:20:11 GMT
References: <1291@carroll1.cc.edu> <7005@cps3xx.UUCP>
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>I'll tell you what it means to me: THE A500 SUCKS.  It's far and away the most
>UNRELIABLE computer I have ever used.  It is getting to the point where it is
>USELESS!  Every little 5 MINUTE JOB I wanna do turns into a 2 HOUR MARATHON
>DISK RECOVERY operation!   Followed by crashes DURING disk recovery 
>operations!!!  Followed by CRASHES during CRASHES!!! I COULD JUST SCREAM!! 
>AAAHHHHGG!!!!! 


Oh yeah!  Try using a A2088 Bridgecard REV 2 sometime.  It's taken me 2
weeks to get that thing working again after a truck drove by.  Reseating the
card, chips, everything.  It boils down to a reset-wigle-try again-wiggle
type thing.  Pain in the butt.
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