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From: ditzel@ssc-bee.UUCP (Charles L Ditzel)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga,net.micro.atari
Subject: amiga a non-entry at Seattle Compufair
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Date: Wed, 16-Oct-85 15:34:11 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 16 15:34:11 1985
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Re : all the net horror stories on the amiga and atari ...

A couple of weeks ago there was a Computer Fair (Compufair)held 
in Seattle.  One of the big features was that the AMIGA would be there.
The ads were plastered all over all the Compufair advertising :
Come to CompuFair and see the AMIGA!!
(pant) Over a three day span of time ... the machine never made its
appearance.  Officially the information booth was told that no
Amiga was available(!) and that the US mails had done in the Commodore(??)
dealer ...rumors had it that actually two or three
Amigas were readily available but that none seem capable of staying
up.  the Amiga booth incidentally was taken over by a local dealer
of Atari STs which sold out their ST inventory and people supposedly
were asking to buy the demonstrators.

(Later I also found out that likewise at a San Francisco computer fair
the AMIGA made an appearance but kept crashing so the it was pulled...
this was the week prior to the Seattle fair)

I now own an Atari ST and am pretty happy with its performance so the
question is :

    Are all the Amiga and Atari horror stories just isolated
    incidents or is there a trend ??? 

    Are we talking about intrinsically bad hardware design or
    just loose chips???