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- From: artgoat@ix.netcom.com (VW)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: AT selling A4000T motherboards?
- Date: Sun, 21 Jan 1996 03:17:51 GMT
- Organization: Incipient Mayhem
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- jabar@aa.net (Jerry Barlow) wrote:
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- >Benjamin Kenobi (fkrj@crux4.cit.cornell.edu) wrote:
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- >: I'm really interested in buying an A4000T motherboard.
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- >I wish they would license someone to make and sell A4000 motherboards
- >with rev 11 buster chips for all the people who got stuck with rev 9's,
- >whcih aren't socketed. I was promised one for free, but instead I was
- >jerked around, and told the boards, like every thing else, were on
- >backorder. Then C= went under.
-
- Hear hear! I've got an A4000/040 which I bought from a company that
- went under shortly after. I bought a 4091 without knowing that I
- could not even use, and now I'm being told that I might as well buy a
- whole new A4000T, because it would cost too much to replace the SMD
- chip. Even before Commodore went under, I was told that nobody but
- God could get their hands on a rev 3.2 CPU card. I'd love to be able
- to support the new Commodore, but I've got $thousands sunk into a
- machine which has some serious flaws. So what hidden flaws are there
- going to be with the NEW A4000T's which the company will deny, stall
- on, and eventually fail to fix? In the PC world, this kind of
- behaviour is not seen except from the skankiest of importers, because
- there is competition.
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- I understand that it would be a tremendous financial obligation to
- attempt to uphold the warranties of all those who bought Amigas from
- Commodore -- probably too much to make it feasible. I think this is
- the first time in the history of personal computers, however, that
- computers have been orphaned while they are still being produced!
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- Loosening up the supply of older motherboards with the REV-11 buster,
- or having some kind of Power Up program would go a long way to
- restoring the tarnished image that Commodore put on the Amiga.
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- Victor Wren
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