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From: mmaston@portia.Stanford.EDU (Michael Maston)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Commodore gets serious?  You judge.
Message-ID: <1990Sep2.034539.7307@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 2 Sep 90 03:45:39 GMT
References: <15500060@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <15500063@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Organization: AIR, Stanford University
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In article <15500063@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> lhummel@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>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?  

Here, here!  :-)

(Sorry, I couldn't resist...)

Michael Maston
GTE Government Systems
Mt. View, CA