Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!daveh From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: 3000 autobooting a 1096N Message-ID: <13817@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 15 Aug 90 16:15:49 GMT References: <754.26C4F281@weyr.FIDONET.ORG> <13796@cbmvax.commodore.com> <24742@boulder.Colorado.EDU> Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax (Dave Haynie) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 53 In article <24742@boulder.Colorado.EDU> you write: >In article <13796@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax (Dave Haynie) writes: >>Well, Ford is one of the largest automobile manufacturers in the country, yet >>I always advise folks who own them to sell them and get some kind of real car. > ^^^^^^^^ >Aack! >Real Car: 1969 Cougar, >200,000 miles, no major engine repairs, no major >interior repairs, original MUFFLER, original owner. All this through some of >the worst weather known to mankind. And it still kicks butt! >Real car, indeed! >;-) >(You will note, of course, that it is for all practical purposes a Ford) Does it start very often? I'm certainly a veteran of Ford ownership. Aside from living through several owned by my parents in the 60s and early 70s, I had two: a 1961 T-Bird and a 1982 Mercury LN-7 (virtually the same thing as a Ford EXP). The T-Bird was, uh, unusual to drive. Heavy as a tank, but that 300HP could get it moving, as long as they movement tended to be in a straight line. There was an anomoly in the steering that made right turns difficult -- you hit a point where the wheels would just jump about 5-10 degrees to the right of where you intended them to be. Fun stuff, indeed. The worst thing was, under about 40 degrees F, or in any rainy weather, the car was nearly impossible to start. I usually resorted to starting spray in cold weather, since the battery had enough juice for about four good cranks. A brand new battery, mind you. The LN-7 was worse. It did like to start, either. And I used to have to have the carb cleaned every 3-6 months to keep it going at all. Then there was the time, one Christmas day, when this little plastic timing belt broke and did a number on the engine. Or that time when the right front _wheel_ just about fell off on my way home from work. At least the repair shops liked this car. These cars really are for the masses, just like PClones or Commodore C64s. Folks with more discriminating tastes wouldn't own either, unless somehow forced to (financially, etc.) > -Steve >(Ridiculous statement overheard the other day: "The Mac is supposed to be the > best machine for Multimedia...") That's a relatively easy assumption to make, if you read the press. Most people tend to believe that the mainstream press, whether speaking on computers, economics, or politics, is both [a] well informed, and [b] honest. It's a rare find to read an author who actually fits both of these categories in any dicipline. -- Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests" {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh PLINK: hazy BIX: hazy Get that coffee outta my face, put a Margarita in its place!