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- From: easton@zds-oem.mi04.zds.com (Jeff Easton)
- Subject: A1200 Notes
- Organization: Zenith Data Systems, OEM Systems Engineering
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 01:27:13 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec26.012713.11714@zds-oem.zds.com>
- Sender: easton@zds-oem.zds.com (Jeff Easton)
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-
- I picked up my A1200 from my dealer on Thursday. I've been on
- the road for the last couple of days (Christmas and all) so I havent
- had much of a chance to really use it yet.
-
- Here are a couple of things I have noticed so far.
-
- 1. It does not come with the 23 to 15 pin video adapter. There was
- an errata sheet in the box saying this. I had my dealer throw one
- in for another $15.00. ouch!
-
- 2. The hard drive install went smoothly. Yes, you need a cable,
- no you cant fit a 3.5" drive. Yes, the hard disk mounting bracket
- is in there, it doubles as the keyboard support.
-
- 3. Since I bought a "no HDD" version, the OS3.0 package came
- without a Install disk. I thoughtfully brought along my 2.1 upgrade
- and installed that on the hard disk. I need to update it to the 3.0
- stuff.
-
- 4. The keyboard is the international version, with two extra keys,
- one near the return key and one near the left shift. See the picture
- in Amiga World. Its that keyboard, except that they dropped the
- English Pound sign an replaced it with the US signage.
-
- 5. Things are really packed inside the case. A combined 030, RAM
- and SCSI board looks iffy, based on available real estate. (GVP,
- prove me wrong, please :-).
-
- I'll try to put together a review for Dan Barrett in the next
- couple of days.
-
- I'd like to thank George Robbins and his crew for putting together
- the A1200. Its a neat package. The internal's have a real quality
- look to them and the engineering is impressive.
-
- --
- ___ ___ Jeff Easton easton@zds-oem.zds.com
- (__ (__ Zenith Data Systems j.easton@mi04.zds.com
- ___) ___) Saint Joseph, Mich. easton@andrews.edu
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