From: Paula_Lieberman@amicol.UUCP (Paula Lieberman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Are These Some Problems Sitting In My Lap?
Distribution: world
Date: 24 Dec 92 21:39:16 EDT
Organization: Amiga Colony BBS

I'm typing this on my old 500, and in my lap is my new 1200.  So far, it's
been giving me a few problems:
#1 -- documentation.  Is there supposed to be an AmigaDOS manual and an
ARexx documentation with it? Guess what -- it came wit an "User's Guide
Workbench 3.0" and a User's Guide A1200" -- NO AmigaDOS manual, nothing
about ARexx.  I called up the Commodore 800 number as soon as I got home
(it didn't occur to me at the dealer's, The Memory Location.  Don Towne,
one of the coowners, said hat none of the other 3 that came in with the one
that's in my lap had an AmigaDOS manual, either.

#2.  Will I be able to format disks? I've -tried- using the old formatting
system.  Disks that format perfectly fine on the 500 I get some  message
like Cylinder 0 won't format" on the A1200 sitting on me..... 

#3.  Getting the power supply plug in all the way wasn't obvious to this
not-so-casual observer. -- the power kept going off every time something
touched the power cable. Turned out it wasn't fully all the way in -- but
it had to be pushed -hard- for that -- I kept TRYING to get it seated more
firmly, but apparently there was a point of insertion where it was
partially inserted enough to connect rather tenatively, and not seem to
want to connect more firmly, that it wanted to stay at.  After five or so
power interrupts, I moved the machine and then discovered that it hadn't
been seated all the way in! 

Oh, yes, on turning the machine off -- the lavendar screen is a thing of
apprehension to someone with a 5 1/2 year old 500 to behold! The checkmard
is back, in colors that immediately tell one of the demise of 16/32/4096
colors in favor of (hooray!!!!!) LOTS MORE colors.  

Now the question is, will I succeed in formatting a disck on the 1200 ....
stay tuned to the next episode of "IAdventures of a new 1200 owner..."

oh -- I called up Commodore at 7 PM, on Christmas Eve. I was surpised (but
happy!) to find out that there was someone there to answer the phone (bonus
points!) and take my question. He didn't know the answer as to whether or
not the 1200 is supposed to include an AmigaDOS 3.0 manual with it (there
is some indication in the User's Guide A1200 that it should, or, at least,
"AmigaDOS User's Guide" and "ARexx User's Guide" are listed under "Related
Documentation" on page xi of the User's Guide A1200.  Also mentioned is
"The Amiga Hard Drive User's Guide, also not supplied.  I don't yet have a
hard drive for the 1200 -- no cable at the dealer yet, and Don's comment
about Commodore supplying a 40 MB hard drive as available from Commodore
installed was his customers wouldn't want drives that small, and that he'd
be stuck with them because they'd all want the larger sizes (one customer
speaking here -- I didn't even bother with 40 MB for the 500 three years
ago!! there's a 105 MB Quantum that's the first and so far only hard drive
I've got.  That will change next weed,however, when the 1200, assuming that
the formatting problem is bogus and it doesn't have to be replaced, gets
its hard drive....)

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