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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga 3000 and poor quality control.
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Date: 1 Aug 90 17:27:54 GMT
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In article <1990Aug1.155127.11975@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> garvin@ccvr1.ncsu.edu (Michael A. Garvin) writes:
>In article <9008011500.AA25318@jade.berkeley.edu> S36666WB@ETSUACAD.BITNET (Brian Wright) writes:
>>
>>        (saga of a broken A3000 and 1950 deleted)
>>
>
>     First, take a Valium.  You need it.  Second, since when is the 3000
...
>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.

	I take issue only with this part of your message.
Commodore is almost a one-billion dollar a year company. If it
were an American company it would be ranked about 350th in the
Forbes top 500 companies. Commodore can't use small size as an
excuse. Of course IBM and Apple are even bigger, but I believe
Commodore and Sun are about the same in annual volume (in
dollars).
	The real reason that Michael is having problems is
because he is a pioneer buying a new machine as soon as it came
out. At this point Commodore is desperately trying to fill all
the orders they've had AROUND THE WORLD! They can't even begin to
make repair parts until supply starts to hit demand.

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


	-- Ethan

Ethan Solomita: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu

"If Commodore had to market sushi they'd call it `raw cold fish'"
		-- The Bandito, inevitably stolen from someone else