Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!ucsd!ucbvax!DBNUAMA1.BITNET!VBRANDT From: VBRANDT@DBNUAMA1.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: SM124 Differences ? Message-ID: <8808100633.AA18357@ucbvax.berkeley.edu> Date: 10 Aug 88 06:33:32 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 22 X-Unparsable-Date: Wed, 10 Aug 88 08:28:30 SET In Info-Atari16 Digest #343, mcvax!cernvax!ethz!forty2!poole@uunet.uu.net (Simon Poole) writes: >In article <8808021217.AA02247@ucbvax.berkeley.edu> VBRANDT@DBNUAMA1.BITNET > writes: (...) >>The problem is known. Atari manufactured a whole bunch of these monitors, but >>refuses to deal with the problem, claiming that it is caused by 'unavoidable >>parts tolerances'. Any monitor shipped to Atari would be returned unrepaired. >Was this Atari Germany or Atari US? I would be suprised if somebody >from Atari US had said something like that, but not at all (in fact >it's what I expect) if it was Atari Germany. This, of course, was Atari Germany. And, equally of course, it was precisely the kind of behaviour anyone expects who has *ever* had dealings with Atari Germany.(No smiley faces here.) Bitnet: VBRANDT@DBNUAMA1 Volker A. Brandt UUCP: ...!unido!DBNUAMA1.bitnet!vbrandt Angewandte Mathematik ARPAnet: VBRANDT%DBNUAMA1.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Bonn, West Germany)