Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!mcdchg!chinet!att!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!bu-cs!purdue!decwrl!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!mcvax!enea!dkuug!ambush!ambone!leif From: leif@ambone.UUCP (Leif Andrew Rump) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: anyone heard of "Amstrad" pc clone? Keywords: amstrad, pc clone Message-ID: <437@ambone.UUCP> Date: 12 Dec 88 11:01:21 GMT References: <401500bd.14dc3@gogol> Organization: AmbraSoft A/S (Denmark) Lines: 20 DON'T BYE IT! I'm working as a sysop for a Amstrad Computer shop in my spare time and until now we have replaced the two computers in my home twice because of harddisk problems (The power supply isn't strong enough) and a colour monitor burnt itself out! And the trick of death: Try holding down the SHIFT key and write COM as quickly as you can and you will end up with COM7. Now slow down and you will realise that a normal (software) writer will experience problems EVERY time he writes COM (this isn't (thank god) written on a Amstrad!). Leif Andrew Rump, Ambrasoft A/S, Roejelskaer 15, DK-2840 Holte (Denmark) UUCP: leif@ambone.dk, phone: +45 2424 111, touch phone: +45 422 817 + 313 BBS1: ABC BBS: +45 68 00 544, 3/12, 24h, 2:505/38 (ABC Sysop) BBS2: PC-Club BBS: +45 68 0270, 3/12/24, 24h, 2:505/54 (PC-Club Sysop) Please note the node-change: Ambone, Italian for a pulpit (The following interpretations emerged Am_bone, Ambrasoft A/S bone when Ambone was put down on paper and Amb_one, Ambrasoft A/S #one accepted - they are solely mine!!!!!) ...