Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!b-tech!ais.org!jph From: jph@ais.org (Joseph Hillenburg) Subject: Re: Wake Up Commodore! Message-ID: Sender: jph@ais.org Organization: UMCC, Ann Arbor, MI References: <1991Mar20.223535.248@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1991Mar22.040419.27268@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Distribution: comp Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1991 05:29:37 GMT In article <1991Mar22.040419.27268@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes: >1) Attached keyboard is ugly Yep, actually, I wish that C= would use audible IBM-type keyboards. (The only thing IBM does right IS their keyboards...) >2) I like the keyboard on my lap. Impossible here. Just an >Ethanism though. Gee, I can do this with my old A500! ) (Don't use it much anymore, my 2500 spoiled me ) >3) You can't put a monitor on top. This is very inconvenient if >you don't have much space The 1084 series will fit on top. You just either use the built-in stand or prop up the back end. >4) Very important though is the expandability. Yes, you can >expand via the slot at the left, but you are paying a lot for >extra casing and power supply, which also looks real ugly and >gets even more in the way. Commodore has a nasty habit with weak power supplies. > If it were possible to put a hard drive INSIDE the case, >there would be a big cost savings for those who want an HD. There was an ad in Amigaworld for one of these... > I certainly don't want the A500 to disappear. But there >needs to be some model that is right for those who want a machine >usable for real applications (i.e. a hard drive) and minimal >expandability, in a well-designed machine. That is what I'm >looking for. > > -- Ethan > > >Q: How many Comp Sci majors does it take to change a lightbulb A: 4, one to do it, one to write a flowchart illustrating how it's done, one to complain about the logic errors in the process, and one to go tattling to the teacher about how it was done wrong. -- // Joseph Hillenburg/Blackwinter, Secretary, Bloomington Amiga Users Group \X/ jph@valnet.UUCP jph@irie.ais.org jph@gnu.ai.mit.edu "Project: Desert Storm is also known as ``The Mother of All Ass-Kickings.''"