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From: miker@laidbak.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Pal Jr.
Message-ID: <1074@laidbak.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 8-Jun-87 12:01:53 EDT
Article-I.D.: laidbak.1074
Posted: Mon Jun  8 12:01:53 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 10-Jun-87 07:12:54 EDT
References: <493@unisec.usi.com>
Reply-To: miker@laidbak.UUCP (Mike Roth)
Organization: LAI Chicago
Lines: 32
Keywords: Amiga hard disk expansion excellent product

In article <493@unisec.usi.com> mark@unisec.usi.com (Mark Rinfret) writes:
>   [ stuff about setting up his Pal Jr. ]
>
>That's all for now.  Oh yeah  - the price was $1495 plus Federal Express
>shipping for a grand total of $1532.  Though I choked on the price
>when first considering this product, I'm very pleased with it.  

I received my Pal Jr. on Thursday (June 4)!!!  Well worth the wait.
I bought the 40 Meg harddisk version.

I have had no trouble with warmstarting the computer since adding
junior.  You may have some hardware trouble there.  I don't recall
how I ran preferences, but it worked fine for me.  I suspect I ran it
from the CLI since I don't normally use the workbench.

The hardware was quite easy to install and it came up perfectly on the
first try without any effort.  I had a little trouble reformatting the
hard disk, but worked it out without too much trouble (I wanted four
separate partitions instead of the one it came with).

I played with Dpaint II last night on the hard disk.  The first time I
brought it up I could not load or save any pictures.  I later realized
that it was because I didn't have any floppy in DF1:.  Dpaint II
automatically assumes DF1: as the default drive for pictures.  It really
should use an assigned name like PICS: or something that the user can
set to whatever he likes (I use dh3:dp2/pictures).

I will also be willing to answer questions anyone might have on the
Pal Jr.  I am quite happy with mine so far.

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Mike Roth  -  {sun|allegra|ihnp4}!laidbak!miker  or  miker@laidbak.UUCP