From: fheitkamp@desire.wright.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: A4000 case design (was Re: Top 10 reasons why ...)
Date: 12 Nov 92 06:42:14 EST
Organization:  Wright State University 

In article <1992Nov11.154623.7830@ra.msstate.edu>, skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Skip Sauls) writes:
> In article <+sp1s3l@rpi.edu> danaf@rpi.edu writes:
>><6gp1fvg@rpi.edu> <1992Nov11.015857.2731@ra.msstate.edu>
>>Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 07:02:26 GMT
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> was removing the huge RF shield and sliced my finger wide open, spewing 
> blood inside the machine.  Luckily the machine was off and I managed to 

	Yuck, Blech, Puke, Ugh.

> mop most of it up, but a bit of it dried on the motherboard.  Gross maybe,
> but it is the kind of thing that one remembers well.  :-)
> 
>>|> Okay, that clarifies things a bit.  I've also heard people refer to other
>>|> components as the backplane and wasn't sure what you meant exactly.
>>

	I thought the back plane was sort of the system bus where all the 
	cards plug into, say, like VME back plane.

>>Really? What else is it used for? My reference for the term comes from a
>>photo caption in some magazine... possibly AmigaWorld, a dubious source to be 
>>sure...
> 
> We have a few older 386 boxes made by NCR that have an ISA "backplane" 
> instead of a proper motherboard.  Of course the source of this term is
> probably just as dubious.
> 
>(Not Amiga Sentry, tho... I'm positive!  8)   )
> 
> You sure seem to miss that magazine alot...  :-)
> 
>>|> If there is a seal on the back of the machine, I'll have to void the warranty
>>|> as I am sure as hell not going to send it to a dealer to have the Ethernet
>>|> board installed.  The A3000 came with information on how to install boards
>>|> in it, implying that it was okay, but I've heard that new A2000s have a silly
>>|> seal warning you not to break it.  Sheesh, if the machine has slots, why in

	This bothers me too.  I was a sort of a technician ( replacing circuit
	boards, trouble shooting etc. ) before I got an EE degree.  Why should
	I feel that the techs at a Commodore dealer have some special knowlege
	that I don't.  At least I haven't found one who does yet.

>>|> the world would they have such a silly policy?  Can you imagine the reaction
>>|> if a Clone maker put such a thing on one of their boxes?  Even the expandable
>>|> Macs don't have warnings like that.
>>
>>That is kind of... uhm... well... STUPID! Anyone ever hear of the term "open
>>architecture"????
> 
> Somehow I don't believe that the engineers made this policy.  Unfortunately,
> the policies are often made by marketing dweebs who seem to know very little
> about computers.
> 
	They're trying to protect themselves from some dweeb who screws up
	and says the computer was bad.

	[stuff deleted]

>>What's the point of a drive bay that doesn't hold any drives?
> 
> It might be tall enough for a standard floppy or hard drive.
> 
	What size drive was it?  Was it the height dimension?

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>>|> No one else has suggested a resolution, but many have said that JPEG would
>>|> be better than GIF for a variety of reasons.
>>
	I get the strangest feeling that JPEG and MPEG will be obsolete
	before they even get them out the door....

>>That would be good... also supported widely on UNIX. I'm just hoping for some
>>sort of multi-platform standard, not IFF (readable almost nowhere...)
> 
	IFF is a great standard.  PC clowns ignore it.  Just like they ignore
	every other good quality the Amiga has.

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> Skip Sauls, Amiga Adovate, Photographer, and Brain Dead Assault Victim
> skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu
> 
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