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From: joemu@nscpdc.NSC.COM (Joe Mueller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Pal Jr.
Message-ID: <863@nscpdc.NSC.COM>
Date: Fri, 29-May-87 12:48:15 EDT
Article-I.D.: nscpdc.863
Posted: Fri May 29 12:48:15 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 31-May-87 20:39:38 EDT
References: <1135@crash.CTS.COM> <545@unisec.usi.com>
Organization: National Semiconductor, Portland Development Center, Portland, OR
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Summary: I have/had one

> a little hard to swallow.  Does anyone in net land have "inside info"
> on what is going on at Byte-by-Byte?  Are they actually snagged on
> FCC certification or do they really have production problems?
> 
> -- 
> | Mark R. Rinfret, SofTech, Inc.		mark@unisec.usi.com |

I purchased one of the PAL JR systems by Byte By Byte. My system works
fairly well but it does have two bugs in it. One bug is that the real time
clock sometimes gives me random dates (so it's not much good to me) and the
other is that while doing something that accesses the disk a lot, I get a
requestor that says I have a read/write error. If I ask AmigaDOS to retry
it always works so it looks like some type of timing problem. Both of these
problems occur infrequently but since it's under warranty I'm sending it back
to be repaired/replaced.

I can assure you, they are shipping products. If more systems than mine have
these problems, they may be temporarily suspending shipment until they clean
up the problem. They seem to be very honest in my dealings with them, I
ordered the system in December of last year but because of production problems
could not send it until April (they told me this BEFORE I ordered it, but
I was willing to wait) and they didn't cash my check until they shipped it.

Other than the above mentioned problems, I LOVE my PAL!  I just wish Commodore
designed the system so that it would automatically boot from the hard disk and
I'd throw my floppies in the closet!

						Joe Mueller
						...!nsc!nscpdc!joemu