A Public Apology

[curtis]

A while back I sent my minimig into Amigakit to have the memory upgraded from 2MB to 4MB.

When it came back I plugged up and turned it on.  Much to my chagrin, nothing happened.  For some reason, it was stuck in 50Hz mode and would not shift back even when using the F1 option.

I tried several things to no avail.

Rather than contact Amigakit and have them assist me in troubleshooting, I blasted them here in a public forum.

After a lot of help from them and a couple of other members on this forum the stupid thing just started working as if nothing had ever been wrong with it.  To this day, I'm still not sure what made it lose its mind or what corrected it.

However, I am very sure that Amigakit did NOTHING to cause the problem.

To all the fine people at Amigakit, I sincerely apologize for both my rudeness in some emails that I firebombed in your direction and for the bus throwing I engaged in in this forum.

Now if anyone wants to take a cheap shot while I'm prostrated here, go ahead and get your jollies.

Curtis McCain

[orb85750]

Now if we could only get a public apology post by McEwen.

[Dragster]

Now if we could only get a public apology post by McEwen.

:laughing:

[mrmoonlight]

A while back I sent my minimig into Amigakit to have the memory upgraded from 2MB to 4MB.
 
When it came back I plugged up and turned it on. Much to my chagrin, nothing happened. For some reason, it was stuck in 50Hz mode and would not shift back even when using the F1 option.
 
I tried several things to no avail.
 
Rather than contact Amigakit and have them assist me in troubleshooting, I blasted them here in a public forum.
 
After a lot of help from them and a couple of other members on this forum the stupid thing just started working as if nothing had ever been wrong with it. To this day, I'm still not sure what made it lose its mind or what corrected it.
 
However, I am very sure that Amigakit did NOTHING to cause the problem.
 
To all the fine people at Amigakit, I sincerely apologize for both my rudeness in some emails that I firebombed in your direction and for the bus throwing I engaged in in this forum.
 
Now if anyone wants to take a cheap shot while I'm prostrated here, go ahead and get your jollies.
 
Curtis McCain

 
                                 Hi well done my friend it takes a good man to say sorry when he,s wrong ,good on yer Brian:)

[LoadWB]

Curtis,

I do not think anyone here will engage in cheap shots against you for what is obviously a heartfelt and genuine apology.

AmigaKit is a well-known member of this community, having served it well for many years and built a great reputation.  Your worst flaming would most likely come to you amidst a thread in which you might make emotional and irrational accusations.  But mostly, we are a supportive community and even in your moments of angry posting we are more apt to encourage you to communicate with AmigaKit (or others, like redrumloa) and ensure you have exhausted options.

I, and I believe we all, appreciate you making things right with AmigaKit, as well as AmigaKit working with you to resolve the issue -- in both of which we all carry faith.  In all, I believe it is best and wise for someone to work directly with a vendor as much as possible before penning (or keying, I suppose) a public slamming.

I know I, for one, will be sending my two PPC boards to Chris to see what he can make of them (both dead) once I have a little extra dosh.

So, cheers, my Texan friend.  Next time I am in Amarillo I will see about buying you a tall frosty one.

[Darrin]

Hi Curtis, have you received that Minimig hard file I sent you?  Does it work?

[cecilia]

Now if we could only get a public apology post by McEwen.

not to mention a couple of other people....but that's an old story and best left forgotten

[cecilia]

A while back I sent my minimig into Amigakit to have the memory upgraded from 2MB to 4MB.

When it came back I plugged up and turned it on.  Much to my chagrin, nothing happened.  For some reason, it was stuck in 50Hz mode and would not shift back even when using the F1 option.

I tried several things to no avail.

Rather than contact Amigakit and have them assist me in troubleshooting, I blasted them here in a public forum.

After a lot of help from them and a couple of other members on this forum the stupid thing just started working as if nothing had ever been wrong with it.  To this day, I'm still not sure what made it lose its mind or what corrected it.

However, I am very sure that Amigakit did NOTHING to cause the problem.

To all the fine people at Amigakit, I sincerely apologize for both my rudeness in some emails that I firebombed in your direction and for the bus throwing I engaged in in this forum.

Now if anyone wants to take a cheap shot while I'm prostrated here, go ahead and get your jollies.

Curtis McCain

very nicely put. all is forgiven. :banana: have a banana

[Firedawg]

Very good form Curtis!  

The Dawg

[smerf]

Hi,

@Curtis,

This brings a tear to my eye, because I burned up my A1200 USB board, because I couldn't see the pins properly, it was AmigaKits fault for not issuing a free LED flashlight with the purchase. They should have paid for my glasses to. How dare they?

OK, I hope Amigakit can take a joke

smerf

[kolla]

@Curtis
Nicely put, +10 cred points

[coldfish]

It's easy to jump to conclusions when youre angry or frustrated. It's difficult to bite your tongue and remain rational when it seems that someone has wronged you.

Turn away from the easy path and follow that which is difficult.

 

[marcfrick2112]

Well done, Curtis! :afro:

It takes a big man to admit he's wrong.
And, I've been there as well........ Blasting Softhut for something that wasn't thier fault (software issues)

[F0LLETT]

No problems.

Im just glad you managed to get it working.
If it was bugging you, imagine how it was bugging me, .


[joke]
Oh ment to say, we will providing prescription glasses and LED flashlights to all Subway customers, .
[/joke]

[hardlink]

not to mention a couple of other people....but that's an old story and best left forgotten

Perhaps, but what the heck.
Hard to forget Medhi Ali, who personally screwed up the deal to sell re-branded A3000's as 68K Sun workstations. If not for him, the deal might have provided the boost at the time to finish the AAA chipset and get a lot more hardware to places that were happy to buy non-clone machines. Look at the competition at the time:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Classic
( 9-inch (23 cm) monochrome CRT display, 512×342 pixel resolution, and 4 megabyte (MB) memory limit, for those who were not there; no kidding)

http://toastytech.com/guis/win203.html
(what more can be said, except why? why? why? did Billy G win)

I'm afraid McEwen is not even in the same league.