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From: klm@munsell.UUCP (Kevin (with the fiberglass reinforced left foot) McBride)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A2000 serial port != A1000 (ackkkk!)(and 500 || <> 1000 ||)
Message-ID: <1312@atkins.munsell.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 22-Oct-87 08:46:23 EST
Article-I.D.: atkins.1312
Posted: Thu Oct 22 08:46:23 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 25-Oct-87 09:42:07 EST
References: <1962@ucbcad.berkeley.edu> <610@louie.udel.EDU> <2548@cbmvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: klm@munsell.UUCP (Kevin (with the fiberglass reinforced left foot) McBride)
Organization: Designer Orthopedic Appliances
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Summary: How can we win when you keep changing the rules?

This article contains a *little* bit of Spam. :-)

Apologies to Leo Schwab for copying the "look and feel" of his signature.
I hope he doesn't have a Copyright on it. :-)

In article <2548@cbmvax.UUCP> grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) writes:
>The parallel cable is now the same as the IBM PC parallel printer cable
>that can be found in any mom & pop computer store or accessory catalog.
>
>Seriously, we agonized over this quite a bit

As much as I'm "agonizing" right now?

Um, George, does this mean that when I trade in my 1000 for a 2000 later
this month that my Future Sound audio digitizer (which connects to the
parallel port) is going to be broken as far as the Amiga is concerned?

Is this going to piss off the third party people who manufacture various
dongles for the parallel (or serial) port?

Is this going to piss off people who already own various dongles for the
parallel (or serial) port?

Are you (Commodore) going to publish some kind of document describing
(in detail) what you gotta do to fabricate a cable to correct for this
incompatibility?  Are you going to make it available to everybody and
not just "Developers"?  And not charge as much for it as it costs to
buy a set of RKMs, which I haven't done yet because I think they're too
@#$%^& expensive?  Well, actually, I have a set of *old* RKMs, but I'll
be dipped in @#$% if I'm going to lay out even more $$$$ to buy a new
set.

Sorry if this sounds like a flame, but it's early and I haven't had my
coffee yet and my broken ankle is killing me and I'm bummed out because
I did away with my ski season this year.  Sigh.  So much for trying to
get in shape.  Oh well, I guess I'll just stay home and work on that
product I'm trying to develop.  As long as Commodore stops changing the
rules, that is.

On the lighter side, I still think the Amiga is the best small computer
you can get, at any (reasonable) price (Sun not included.)  But, it still
has a lot of headroom available to get even better.

Cheers!

-- 
Kevin McBride, the guy in the cast   //       | Your mind is totally controlled
Raquetball - the only way to        //        | It has been stuffed into my mold
ruin your ski season :-(       \\  //  Amiga  | And you will do as you are told
{encore,adelie}!munsell!klm     \\//   Rules! | until the rights to you are sold