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From: aimd@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Davidson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: SAMPLERS: The one that I want...
Message-ID: <2503@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 27 Feb 90 13:46:42 GMT
References: <9002270812.AA13603@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: aimd@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Davidson)
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In article <9002270812.AA13603@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> ZDEE050@elm.cc.kcl.ac.UK ("sometimes known as Fraser...") writes:
>The biggest joke is POWER COMPUTING (I noticed that someone else on the net
>seems to question this firm....). They "market" MOUSE MUSIC, which on paper
>looks good (8 bits only, but Stereo, so more than one ouput), but talking to
>various people (including Chris, the programmer) got me worried, there were
>problems they said.... So I asked Power Computing for a Demo. The weeks passed,
>Ken (of PC) kept saying it would be with me of friday/friday/friday etc. What
>finally convinced me was when Chris left the company - after falling out with
>the hardware designer! I would never now touch Power Computing with a
>bargepole, a very very long one too!

Yes, that's it!
Well, more like:-

	   (The Story of My Hard Drive by Mark Davidson aged 12)

	"We'll get them in by middle of December"
	"Our supplier let us down"
	"They'll be in soon after Christmas"
	"They'll be in by the middle of January"
	"Well it was the middle of January but they haven't arrived so
	 they'll be in by the end of January"
	"We're sending them out today and tomorrow"
	"Sorry, we didn't have enough, we're getting more in next week"
	"You were unlucky, you'll get the drive within a week"
<My cheque comes back!!! PC have switched to a new drive>
	"We don't do them anymore"
	"Yes, sorry, send for our new drive - it's much better"
<Advert says new drive available in January>
	"It'll be available in the first week of February"
	"Sorry, we decided to change something about it - it'll be ready
	 at the end of next week"
<I got my drive!! Well they do say that miricles are God's gift to sceptics..>

>Fraser Stephens, UK.AC.KCL.CC.OAK::ZDEE050

Oh yeah, my utility disk corrupted the day I got it.

Mark.