Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!psuvax1!rutgers!cbmvax!daveh From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Wake Up Commodore! Message-ID: <20124@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 26 Mar 91 15:03:44 GMT References: <1991Mar20.223535.248@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1991Mar22.040419.27268@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) Distribution: comp Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 27 In article jph@ais.org (Joseph Hillenburg) writes: >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...) Ugh! Say it ain't so! Someone actually likes those IBM keyboards?!? The PC-AT keyboard layout was designed by the devil itself. A giant CAPS-LOCK key, and the CTRL key off in never-never land. The only proper keyboard is something reasonably DEC VT100-ish. >>but you are paying a lot for extra casing and power supply, >Commodore has a nasty habit with weak power supplies. Depends on the computer. The A500 is a $500 computer for a reason. Power supplies cost real money. Same reason the C64 and C128 had low output power supplies. The A2000's 200W+ supply is one of the reasons the A2000 costs so much more for the same basic computing power. 200W is not "weak", even for a machine is all those slots. -- Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests" {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh PLINK: hazy BIX: hazy "That's me in the corner, that's me in the spotlight" -R.E.M.