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From: vkr@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu (Vidhyanath K. Rao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Subsystem 500 - Product Review
Summary: a 'long-time' user speaks
Message-ID: <869@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 4 Sep 88 17:40:35 GMT
References: <1173@astroatc.UUCP> <10204@s.ms.uky.edu>
Organization: Ohio State Math-Stats Dept
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In article <10204@s.ms.uky.edu>, david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) writes:
: The thing comes in a metal case that's made from two pieces of stamped & bent
: sheet metal.  The two halves fit together fairly well, but it takes a certain
: amount of juggling to actually get them to fit together.
Very true. In fact attempting to install some of the screws resulted in metal
dust all over the place. But one doesnot nedd to put in all the screws
(I hope so)

: The other problem is that this little card sitting
: up in the air is the ONLY thing keeping the A500 and the Subsystem
: together.  But in normal use of a computer one is always sliding the
: keyboard around, resulting in the A500 and the Subsystem often getting
: out of alignment.  I am a little bit afraid that if left alone there
: will be some sort of problem with static or whatever.  I am intending
: to have Mom put some velcro down, or something, to help keep the two
: boxes 'together'.
I solved (?!) the problem by not moving the keyboard. This is helped by the
fact that all the cables one can put on the amiga500 are there. It makes
moving the setup, intentionally or not, quite difficult.

: They do not have anything to pass on the floppy connector.
The cable is long enough to be attached to other drive systems, assuming
that they pass the floppy connection thru. But still a negative though.

: The power supply is a seperate unit which has connectors for +5v, -5v, +12v
: and ground.  The power cable provided only has two connectors on it and
: there aren't any instructions saying which power supply spots to hook the
: power cable to.  In fact, my mother tells me that the documentation was
: basically non-existant...  Oh well.
: 
I believe that there was one small sentence somewhere. But there is no
real documentation. Only an installation guide. But if you are willing
to pay, telephone support if good. I couldn't get the micron 2M board
to work. One needed to install a jumper. The guy at Pacific peripheral
was calmand helpful in spite of my screaming. I like that :-)