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Offline SethyTopic starter

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Sturdy amigas!
« on: July 30, 2004, 07:15:47 PM »
Back in the days where my pops would have to explain computers to me, ( instead of the other way around like nowadays... ) the most effective way to fix our old A500 was to smack it a bit! I was lil back then, so I couldn't hit it hard, really. But it worked most of the time, solving weird freezes and several odd glitches.

A few months ago I got that same old A500 back from a friend my pop gave it to years ago. Decided to clean it up a bit an opened it for the first time. The smacking helped because of some funky dual-kickstart solution involving some ribbon cabling, some soldering and cramming 5 or so sockets on top of one another... I think...

I loved those things back then. No matter how hard I hit my computers nowadays, they all still suck compared to Amigas. As for the stupidest thing that happened to the A500? My dad gave it away and bought a 486 instead. I think I redefined the word "angry" that day...
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Re: Sturdy amigas!
« Reply #1 on: July 31, 2004, 03:55:24 AM »
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BoingBoss wrote:
Hi Sethy,

I like your short story.  Ever thought about becoming a writer?   :-)


Well, considering this was meant to be a reply to another post, not a seperate thread, I highly doubt I'd make a good writer. Talked to a publisher about it but he mentioned something about me releasing individual chapters as books instead and not checking what the heck I am doing in the first place... Ahem...

Sooo, excusez-moi! Doesn't change the point that Amigas were awesome though and could defininitely spank any PC back then. Nowadays things will get tougher alright. But then again, we're comparing modern PCs to 1980/early 90s hardware.
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Re: Sturdy amigas!
« Reply #2 on: August 01, 2004, 01:00:15 PM »
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mikeymike wrote:

I would have done, except the hard disk died.  Do Amigas stop that from happening then? :-)



Yes!

Everyone knows 68k processors create structural integrity fields around HDs and have trilithium-based paraxial graviton stabilizers absorbing any shocks or vibration. They also got some advanced temporal caching where it retrieves data before you ask for it and (self-)repairing intelligent read/write heads on the HDs!

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