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From: mjs@hpfcso.HP.COM (Marc Sabatella)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Stacy problems
Message-ID: <7340044@hpfcso.HP.COM>
Date: 5 Dec 90 15:46:15 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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I finally got my STacy from a small semi-local dealer, and promptly noticed
three things I don't particularly like:

1.  The model I bought was orignally a Stacy 1, but the RAM was replaced with
a SIMM module, with 4 MB.  This was as advertised.  What was not advertised was
the sticker that fell off the case as soon as I picked it up, saying that
removal /damage of the sticker voided my warranty.  The sticker was apparently
protecting a screw that JRI opened to install the SIMM's.  Before I take this
up with JRI, or the dealer (who did not "authorize" the modification - he
ordered the box from another dealer who had already done it), does anyone know
if I've been screwed like I think I have?  Does JRI honor the warranty?  I have
no address or phone # for them.

2.  My first problem that the voided warranty won't cover - if I have a MIDI
instrument connected and powered on, Stacy won't boot.  More particularly, she
boots, displays the desktop, then immediately locks up.  This doesn't happen if
the MIDI instrument is turned off when I boot, so I can work around this, but
it is annoying.  I don't remember this happening on the Mega 2 I used to use,
so I am pretty sure this is a bug, not a feature.  Has anyone else expereinced
this?  Could I be doing something wrong?

3.  The first piece of software I tried to run on, Mitch Bradley's Forthmacs,
doesn't work correctly.  Actually, it comes very close, but I seem to be unable
to "save-rel" anything without getting a "Flushbuf error" - and there is plenty
of space on the disk, and the disk is not write protected.  I plan to take this
up with Mitch, but it definitely is not a good sign.  Hopefully it is something
I am doing wrong, and not something funny about the Stacy or its TOS (called
"Rainbow TOS" - is this the same as 1.4?)

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Marc Sabatella (marc@hpmonk.fc.hp.com)
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