Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!van-bc! From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Commodore gets serious? You judge. Message-ID: <1916@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> Date: 31 Aug 90 15:11:15 GMT Lines: 72 Return-Path: To: van-bc!rnews Jeez! Remove Marc Barrett from my kill file, and what do I see as the first posting I have read from him in months? You guessed it! Another whining, snivelling tirade based on nothing more than his overblown imagination, showing yet again that if he indeed has a brain, that he has probably left it out in the rain and it's gotten all soggy and useless. In <29164@nigel.ee.udel.edu>, BARRETT@owl.ecil.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett) writes: >In message <15500060@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> writes: > >> As of August 1st, 1990, all Amiga 500's, A590 hard drives, A1011 external >>floppy drives, and 1581 floppy drives, C64's, and 1541-II disk drives will be >>shipped with a factory seal on the units' seam. >> >>"IF ANY CUSTOMER BRINGS A MACHINE IN WITH A WARRANTY SEAL BROKEN OR TAMPERED >>WITH, THE MACHINE IS NO LONGER COVERED UNDER WARRANTY." >> >>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? You should READ the posting you are replying to, preferably before you reply. Since you didn't, in this case, REREAD the excerpts above, then tell me where in the A500, A590, or the A1011 you find the slots. Idiot. > Apple had a similar policy with respect to the MAC when it was first >released, and received a LOT of (deserved) flack for it. They then >realized their mistake and stopped using this policy. Unfortunately, >Commodore is too stupid to see the mistakes of other companies such >as Apple and not make the same mistakes themselves. The only idiot in evidence is you, Marc. It is standard practice in the industry to seal equipment without user installable options, and to specify that warrantys are void should the seal be broken. > With a policy like this, Commodore might as well not manufacture >A3000s or A2000s, because they will not sell. This policy, combined >with Commodore's totally-wimpy one-year warranty (most PC clone and >workstation manufacturers have a warranty of at least three years), >and the fact that 33Mhz 386 clones are available for less than the >educational price of the A3000/16, will cause a lot of people to give >up on Commodore altogether. REREAD the posting, pinhead. The statement from CBM does NOT mention the 2000 or 3000 series machines. In fact, Lionel's posting specifically says that the A2000 and A3000 are NOT included. Note also that the A500 may have memory added via the expansion connector WITHOUT breaking the seal. > Commodore is not in a position to make mistakes like this. This >will hurt Commodore in a big way if they insist on continuing this >policy. People who lack the ability to read or think are not in a position to post flames on ANY subject. Seems such a shame to have a kill file just for one entry. Oh well. -larry -- It is not possible to both understand and appreciate Intel CPUs. -D.Wolfskill +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | // Larry Phillips | | \X/ lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips | | COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322 -or- 76703.4322@compuserve.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+