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From: ec150fcy@sdcc13.UUCP (Joseph McCaughey{|stu)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga Development Kit
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Date: Sun, 22-Dec-85 02:51:35 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec 22 02:51:35 1985
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Summary: I cannot believe you...

> 
> 
> I'm livid, Dave. I sent a chashier's check to expedite things.
> 
> Two weeks later, I received the CPU, RAM expansion, and external Drive.
>   And not one manual or diskette. Not one. Nada. Zilch. No monitor either.
> Worse, there's no note of explanation or a promise date. Just BO's all down
> the shipper's QTY column.
> 
> Twelve days after that, I received the v1.0 Retail software package. No
> monitor, no C, no manuals, except for AbasiC.
> 
> So, here I am, December 18, after mailing the order on Nov 16, with AbasiC.
> 
> And the receptionist at Commodore, in answer to my query for a projected
> ship date, advises "call back in a week if you've received nothing." She's
> been instructed by an air-head.
> 
> Well, Commodore-amiga, this is a certain formula for failure. 
> 
> To say that this is a lousy first impression of Commodore-Amiga's
> regard for the developers is a great understatement.
> 
> 			Steve Childress
> 			(818) 706-5000

FLAME ON

You know, I am getting sick of this sort of mail on the net.
You mail-order something, you take your chances.  I have a
friend who is also a registered developer that had to wait over
a month to get his development station and he never complained
once.  Just patiently would smile and say "It's coming soon 
Larry" (You see, I never believed he would really get one, he
once said he was going to order a Mac and he never did).

He meanwhile did all his development on the VAX at his work
with only the device dependent stuff unwritten.  The reason 
I am flaming is because it seems like a lot of people got
development systems who are not going to develop one piece
of marketable software at all for the Amiga.  They only applied
to get their Amiga at a discount.
They cry about not having their Amiga to play with, but heck -- 
the Amiga is only needed for the implementation portion of your 
software package.  A good software package takes a great deal
of time to design.  Certainly four weeks could be spent
designing the overall structure of your package instead of
on useless anxiety.

Larry Joe MacCaughey

"Soon to buy his Amiga from a DEALER -- and proud of it!!!"