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From: jesup@pawl10.pawl.rpi.edu (Randell E. Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Problems with Hard disk and 4.3 motherboard?
Message-ID: <592@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU>
Date: 30 Mar 88 03:19:42 GMT
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>In article <5533@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
>>As he tells the story (this is all hearsay, remember), he compiled
>>and posted to BIX a compendium of *all* the problems on the B2000
>>motherboard, and how to fix them.  Evidently, it was taken off BIX the next
>>day by the moderator at the request of Commodore.
>>
>>	Anyone have any comments on this?  Are these people just blowing
>>smoke?

	I'm on Bix, and I have never seen (or heard) of any such action.  It
would be easy for them to get the word out there if they wanted. 
Advertisements and formal reviews are disallowed (though Not-A-Review is a
common ending for descriptions of new products).

	However, CSA has been thoroughly trashed by customers on Bix, and
never made a peep in their defense, so....  Things like sending a board
3 months late, 1 day after being asked to cancel the order, which caused the
board to sit on a doorstep for a week (the person who cancelled it went on
vacation a couple of days later.)

	CSA has been compared to Tecmar, as a get product out the door first,
even if it doesn't really work well, type of company.  They seem to prefer to
tell people to cut traces or run wires, etc, on their motherboards instead of
redoing their PC board artwork to work reliably.

	NOTE: I am not associated with CSA or any competitors, nor am I a
customer.  I am merely relaying what other people have said.  Take with at
least a small grain of salt.

     //	Randell Jesup			      Lunge Software Development
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