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From: garvin@ccvr1.ncsu.edu (Michael A. Garvin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga 3000 and poor quality control.
Message-ID: <1990Aug1.155127.11975@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
Date: 1 Aug 90 15:51:27 GMT
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Reply-To: garvin@ccvr1.ncsu.edu (Michael A. Garvin)
Organization: Bill 'n Opus Campaign HQ
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In article <9008011500.AA25318@jade.berkeley.edu> S36666WB@ETSUACAD.BITNET (Brian Wright) writes:
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>        (saga of a broken A3000 and 1950 deleted)
>

     First, take a Valium.  You need it.  Second, since when is the 3000
a workstation (as you state in your article)?  Commodore has not said the
3000 is a workstation, and it isn't by any means.  They're not out to
compete with Sun or DEC.  If you needed a workstation you should have looked
at them.  As for your 3000 woes, don't call this your last Commodore
purchase because of one (1) machine.  If everyone who has gotten a bad Sun
workstation threw a tantrum quit buying their product Sun wouldn't be around
(I know, we got 2 bad 3/60's out of 5).  Don't dump on the Amiga for 1 bad
machine.  As for parts, etc., six months ago you wouldn't have gotten an
answer out of Commodore about getting the thing fixed (yes, I know this is
little solace).  Commodore is not a large company like I*M, Apple, etc., who
keeps a huge parts supply all over the country.  It may take a little time
and effort, but your machine will get fixed.
     Now, on the other side, let me tell you about another vendor.  A story
about a company that would not sell us repair parts since we had switched to
another company's machine.  Luckily we were able to get a part from a
different source, but even so it took 2 months plus a MAJOR headache to get
a working machine again.
     In short, chill out.  It may be a pain but yelling won't help any.
BTW, yours is the first defective 3000 I've heard of.  Anyone else had
problems?

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Michael Garvin
garvin@ccvr1.cc.ncsu.edu
NCSU Computing Center - Systems