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- From: barrett@gleep.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Questions, questionz, we got kwestchins, ooh ooh call on me teacher
- Summary: help help I'm ignorant
- Keywords: clueless, know-nothing, Cheez Whiz for brains
- Date: 13 Sep 92 18:23:48 GMT
-
- Now that the A4000 is officially announced, I have a few very simple
- but highly pertinent questions about it. Could someone from CBM, preferably
- Irving, please post a reply?
-
- (1) Is it available in purple?
-
- (2) Does it come with a free A2000?
-
- (3) Can it use ST-506 hard disks? If so, then why not?
-
- (4) Can we install both the "AA" and "AGA" chipsets simultaneously in the
- same machine, for parallel processing?
-
- (5) How long does the 1-year warrantee last?
-
- (6) Will the A4000 fit inside an A500 case, so I can fool my friends?
-
- (7) I have a bunch of ZIP, DIP, SIMM, SLIMM JIMM, and other memory
- thingies in different sizes (1Mx4, 256Kx13, etc). Can I install all
- of them on the A4000 motherboard at the same time? If not, then
- Commodore really sucks fecal matter through a straw.
-
- (8) Is the A1960 monitor surface-mounted to the A4000 motherboard?
-
- (9) How many serial ports does it take to change a lightbulb?
-
- (10) Is it true that Jay Miner personally licks every A4000 before
- it leaves the factory?
-
- (11) What is a 68040, and why does the A4000 need one?
-
- (12) Are there any plans for OS 3.0 to have "TextCraft" in ROM?
-
- (13) Is it true that the A5000, code-named "The Bonker", will be released
- next month, and be completely incompatible with the A4000?
-
- (14) Will somebody please post a list of all Amiga software and
- hardware packages, describing which ones do and don't work
- with the A4000? Please hurry -- I need this by tomorrow.
-
- (15) What are all of Commodore's engineering secrets? Don't worry,
- we won't spread them around. Right, Slu?
-
- (16) I just heard of a 1970's rock group called "The Commodores." Is
- this just coincidence? The lead singer looked just like Dave Haynie,
- or maybe Carolyn Scheppner. Anyway, I'd appreciate knowing if their
- big hit, which I believe was called "Stairway to Heaven", is really
- about CBM marketing strategy.
-
- (17) Who won the World Series in 1949? Why wasn't Commodore there?
-
- (18) I have recently come to agree with everything Marc Barrett
- has ever written on USENET. Do you recommend that I call
- Dr. Ruth?
-
- (19) Do I really have to be attending school to be eligible for the A4000
- educational discounts? Or can I just educate myself instead, say, by
- reading every issue of AmigaWorld? Do I get an extra discount for
- brain damage?
-
- (20) If I throw my computer over a cliff and watch it crash into the
- surf and explode into a million pieces, does this make me an
- "Amiga Pioneer"?
-
- (21) I heard a rumor that Commodore is going to be bought out by
- BillyBob's Plumbing of Chickenmilk, Wisconsin. Should I buy
- more stock?
-
- And finally, could somebody please post Commodore's official A4000
- press release again? I missed it the first 83 times. Just to be sure, how
- about if everybody posts it again? And please cross-post it to all other
- USENET newsgroups so nobody misses it. Thanks!
-
- Dan
-
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