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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga 3000 and poor quality control.
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Date: 1 Aug 90 20:48:27 GMT
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In <3032.26b82e31@cc.curtin.edu.au>, North_TJ@cc.curtin.edu.au (Tim North) writes:
>In article <9008011500.AA25318@jade.berkeley.edu>, S36666WB@ETSUACAD.BITNET (Brian Wright) writes:
>> Hello friends,
>> 
>>         I am not very happy at all.  Let me explain.  I *had* an Amiga 3000
>> briefly.  I bought the 3000 and 6 days later it went to the shop.  It's been
>> there since.  It's still there.  There are *NO* parts available for it, so
>> I was told.  So they ordered a motherboard which is *NOW* on backorder.  Who
>> knows how long that will take.  I am very much upset by this situation.  I'll
>
>[sad story deleted]
>
>> What'd you do only make a small run?  I mean.  This is sad.  I was also told
>> that it might be up to a month before there ARE more 3000s.  A MONTH?  I had
>> machine for SIX days and now I have to wait upto a month for it to be fixed.
>> I should have just waited to purchase it.  Maybe I shouldn't have purchased 
>
>And the moral of this story boys and girls is that C= is playing the age old
>game of beta-testing their hardware by releasing a small amount of stock into
>the market place and then waiting to see what breaks.
>
>Nice for them - cheap R&D. I mean why test the thing when they know that there's
>a whole mass of people who can be used as guinea pigs. :-( 

Oh bull! This was the first I have heard of initial problems with a 3000. Be
cynical all you want, but if it doesn't match the facts, a lot of folks are
going to ignore it.

-larry

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