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From: eric@hector.UUCP (Eric Lavitsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: CEBIT soreheads
Message-ID: <10197@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Date: 29 Mar 88 20:23:47 GMT
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In article <8713@g.ms.uky.edu> sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) writes:
>[Sorry about this article, but Eric deemed it necessary to call me an asshole
>in a public group in response to my complaints directed at Commodore]
>
>In article <10187@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> eric@hector (Eric Lavitsky) writes:
>>>So here I am with a computer that has been effectively abandoned hardware-wise
>>>by it's company less than 4 months after I bought it. That sucks.
>>
>>Give me a break asshole. You could have taken advantage of the trade in
>>offer - your 1000 + the $1K would have ended up being around the same
>>price as a brand new A2000 at the time.
>
>No bullshit, bat brain.  Unfortunately, I didn't have $1000. Or was that so
>difficult to figure out?

So why the hell did you complain about how you "would have bought an A2000
if you knew it was coming", when you didn't even have the money in the first
place???!

>>>I will not buy another *Commodore* computer, not because I am mad (and I am),
>>>but because there's nothing to say that they won't do the same exact thing
>>>again.
>>
>>Good. So sell your 1000 and get off the net.
>
>What an arrogant ass you are. If you want to get personal, fine, but lets
>take it to email.

Hey I apologize for getting "arrogant" (I consider it more like "pissed"),
but admit that your messages haven't been completely "constructive" either. 
In any event this is the last you'll hear from me about it. You vented some 
steam in public and so did I.

<>>I will consider other brands of computers, however, especially those that
<>>demonstrate a willingness to support their customers.
<>
<>I suppose CATS's and the hardware folks presence on the net and Bix constitute
<>a definite showing of "no support", eh?
<
<Hardware support, noodlehead, hardware support. Most specificially I was
<referring to the announcement of non-interlace chips for the 500 amd 2000,
<but not the 1000.  Even with a 2000-in-1, how am I going to use these chip
<upgrades?

This is oooooollld news my friend - besides, without the new monitor, 
you're not going to be able to take advantage of the non-interlaced
stuff anyway (can you say "even more money"?). Try and be happy with
what you have - it's the best you're money could have bought you at the
time. Stop thinking that hardware support is equivalent to software
support - it's not.

<Sean

Eric

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