Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site randvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!gatech!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!ittatc!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!randvax!jim From: jim@randvax.UUCP (Jim Gillogly) Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga Subject: Re: a very dubious honor Message-ID: <2813@randvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 22-Nov-85 11:33:02 EST Article-I.D.: randvax.2813 Posted: Fri Nov 22 11:33:02 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 26-Nov-85 20:21:11 EST References: <1953@gatech.CSNET> Reply-To: jim@rand-unix.UUCP (Jim Gillogly) Organization: Banzai Institute Lines: 28 Summary: Welcome to the club In article <1953@gatech.CSNET> sloan@gatech.CSNET writes: >... >I powered down, powered up, and >checked the system. The mouse and workbench were fine. But the >keyboard was dead. Not even CTRL-A-A worked. Also, the CAPS LOCK >LED was lit. I took the keyboard to my local Amiga store, and when >they plugged it into their machine, it did the same thing. > >The good news is that they are going to fix it or replace it for me >by tomorrow, free of charge. Whew! > We finally got our machine through the developers' program, and the keyboard was DOA in the same way yours died: CAPS LOCK LED lit and all. Like yours, mouse and workbench worked. Unlike your experience, I've had to return the whole thing (NOT JUST THE KEYBOARD) to Pennsylvania AT MY EXPENSE!!! Not to a local dealer, not just the keyboard, not postpaid, not nothing! And they'll eventually get around to sending a new development machine. And we're sitting here. Just great. Some guarantee. Two weeks at least. I called and kvetched to everybody who would listen, and they all said that was the way the policy worked. Fumingly... -- Jim Gillogly {decvax, vortex}!randvax!jim jim@rand-unix.arpa