Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!HIS-PHOENIX-MULTICS.ARPA!Friesen From: Friesen@HIS-PHOENIX-MULTICS.ARPA Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Mega woes, or lack of Message-ID: <880714031521.007195@HIS-PHOENIX-MULTICS.ARPA> Date: 14 Jul 88 03:15:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Friesen%PCO@BCO-MULTICS.ARPA Organization: The Internet Lines: 32 While we are on the subject of "adding data for those with a statistical bent."--as Dave Flory (I think) puts it. I own (or at least have in my home) a 1040ST, an IBM clone, an Atari 1200XL, and a Mac Plus. Out of all of them the one I have had the least trouble with are the two Ataris, I have had to have my ST's drive heads alined a few times (that might be due to the fact that I format SS disks as DS). I haven't had any other work done on any of the others. The Mac Plus' OS is buggy. Every-so-often it crashes just when I'm in the middle of something big that I haven't saved for a while. My Mac Plus also dosn't have a reset or restart button, so when I get a system error (which I do often) I have to turn it off. I used to have a Mac 512, and when I upgraded found that the Mac 512 and the Mac plus were not very compatable when all of my favorite software bombed. My ST is my main computer, and I usually only use the Mac for an occasional game, or desktop publishing (because I have access to a laser printer). I totally ignore my clone, and basically my 1200XL has retired for a games machine. I am very pleased with my ST, and I believe it is the best microcomputer on the market today! ~~~~~~~ As far as Megas go, after hearing about the problems of the Megas, I asked my local Atari service man how many Megas he had in to repaire, he said none. Aric Friesen Addresses: Genie: A.FRIESEN ARPA: Friesen%PCO@BCO-MULTICS.ARPA "Lenny, ya durned fool, ya bought an Amiga!" "Gee George, I squashed the mouse!" ---"Of Mice and Men"