sloan@gatech.CSNET (Alan D. Sloan et al.) (11/15/85)
I yesterday became the first Amiga owner I know of to experience
hardware failure. Lucky me. I was typing a letter, when, all of
a sudden, my screen goes blank. Actually, it was sort of pale blue.
Nothing I typed made any difference. I powered down, powered up, and
checked the system. The mouse and workbench were fine. But the
keyboard was dead. Not even CTRL-A-A worked. Also, the CAPS LOCK
LED was lit. I took the keyboard to my local Amiga store, and when
they plugged it into their machine, it did the same thing.
The good news is that they are going to fix it or replace it for me
by tomorrow, free of charge. Whew!
Lee
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Alan Sloan
School of Information & Computer Science, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332
CSNet: sloan @ GATech ARPA: sloan%GATech.CSNet @ CSNet-Relay.ARPA
uucp: ...!{akgua,allegra,hplabs,ihnp4,linus,seismo,ulysses}!gatech!sloanbrolsma@BBN-SPCA.ARPA (11/17/85)
From: Bruce Brolsma <brolsma@BBN-SPCA.ARPA>
My Model 1080 monitor flipped out on the second day I had the system; since my
dealer is just 10 minutes away, I was back in business within an hour. It was
his (and my) opinion that if the system is gonna go, it's more likely to do it
soon after you start using it. Overall, I'm quite pleased with the system.
I'd especially like to thank Commodore/Amiga for the keyboard layout. It's a
joy to use.
-bruce
Bolt Beranek & Newman, Inc.jim@randvax.UUCP (Jim Gillogly) (11/22/85)
In article <1953@gatech.CSNET> sloan@gatech.CSNET writes: >... >I powered down, powered up, and >checked the system. The mouse and workbench were fine. But the >keyboard was dead. Not even CTRL-A-A worked. Also, the CAPS LOCK >LED was lit. I took the keyboard to my local Amiga store, and when >they plugged it into their machine, it did the same thing. > >The good news is that they are going to fix it or replace it for me >by tomorrow, free of charge. Whew! > We finally got our machine through the developers' program, and the keyboard was DOA in the same way yours died: CAPS LOCK LED lit and all. Like yours, mouse and workbench worked. Unlike your experience, I've had to return the whole thing (NOT JUST THE KEYBOARD) to Pennsylvania AT MY EXPENSE!!! Not to a local dealer, not just the keyboard, not postpaid, not nothing! And they'll eventually get around to sending a new development machine. And we're sitting here. Just great. Some guarantee. Two weeks at least. I called and kvetched to everybody who would listen, and they all said that was the way the policy worked. Fumingly... -- Jim Gillogly {decvax, vortex}!randvax!jim jim@rand-unix.arpa