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From: jph@ais.org (Joseph Hillenburg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Wake Up Commodore!
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Date: 26 Mar 91 21:35:52 GMT
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In article <20124@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
>In article <N&2-=9%@irie.ais.org> 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.

No! No! No! I *like* the Amiga keyboard layout, with the exceptions:

Backspace is too small
Capslock can be hit often when trying to hit the 'A' key.

I meant, the actual microswitch-like connecters that IBM uses
in their new keyboards, which makes the 'click' sound.

>
>>>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.
>
>

Yes, but the A500 power supply could be beefed up at least a few watts.

>-- 
>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.


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