PETCHER@FSU.BITNET (06/17/88)
I am not having very good luck with Mega 2's so far. Last December I purchased one, which was obviously buggy from day one. Typically after the machine was on for about an hour it would simply start crashing randomly with no apparent cause. Partly because I also had some new software and partly because I was busy with other things at the time, it took me about a month to realize that the problem was really a hardware problem and two or three more weeks to get to where I could sufficiently demonstrate it to my dealer in a controlled environment (i.e. I had to learn how to crash the desktop without any other programs present, lest they be accused of being the culprits). It appeared to be a heat problem in the end - some chip just couldn't take the heat. Finally it was obvious that the machine should go back. So the dealer called Atari, they agreed, and that was that. After somewhat over two months of waiting I finally recieved a replacement. Aside from the long wait (I had a 1040ST available at the time so I didn't ask the dealer for a loan) that was all well and good. One occasionally expects a lemon with any sort of complicated equipment. The first strike against Atari though is that there are only two Mega owners in our local Atari users group and *both* of us had the same experience with the first machine we recieved. Both had hardware problems. And they were not purchased in the same store, but several hundred miles apart.
R_Tim_Coslet@cup.portal.com (06/18/88)
In message: <[gw.scri.fsu.edu].854A7080.00914702.PETCHER> PETCHER@FSU.BITNET Writes... >I am not having very good luck with Mega 2's so far. Last December I purchased >one, which was obviously buggy from day one. Typically after the machine was >on for about an hour it would simply start crashing randomly with no apparent >cause. [remainder deleted] I also purchased a Mega 2 in December. I have had no problems with it. My SH204 hard disk had a Power Supply failure just after the waranty expired, and my Supra 2400 Modem died about a week after getting the Hard Disk fixed (It is still under waranty). But the Mega 2 has consistently worked with no problems. R_Tim_Coslet@cup.portal.com