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From: lhummel@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Commodore gets serious?  You judge.
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Date: 1 Sep 90 05:36:00 GMT
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Written by BARRETT@owl.ecil.iastate.edu in comp.sys.amiga:
> >Bottom line: If you buy a machine and want to expand the memory INSIDE the
> >unit [note: this only is referring to the products listed above, not the A2000
> >or A3000 - Lionel], GO TO YOUR DEALER!!!  If you do it, and the machine breaks
> >within that first year, you just paid for the repair bill!!  BUYER BEWARE!

> * FLAME ON! *
>    This is a positively stupid policy.  What is the good in having a 
> system with slots if they cannot be used?
>
>    With a policy like this, Commodore might as well not manufacture
> A3000s or A2000s, because they will not sell.
> [ remainder mercifully deleted ]

* FLAME BACK *
Rather, I think you are positively daft.  You completely missed it, didn't
you?  The editorial clarification I put in was to fend off misinterpretation
by sloppy readers.  I suppose I should have guessed that someone might still
fall off the low end of the bell curve.  What do you DO, read every OTHER
sentence?  What do you DO, read every OTHER sentence?  Could I have made it
any clearer?  Could I have made it any clearer?  

[ digression ]

I am reminded of a story once told about an unnamed Commodore engineer who
designed a hardware register that would sometimes fail to latch a value the 
first time it was written.  The work-around for this mistake was to always 
write the register twice when setting it.  Unwilling to let this guy live it 
down, his co-workers began repeating everything twice when addressing him.  
How fitting!  [ Thanks to Dave Haynie for the story. ]

< Lionel