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- From: cpalmer@parsifal.nando.net (Cory Palmer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: AT selling A4000T motherboards?
- Date: 23 Jan 1996 23:07:22 GMT
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- In article <4dsb8q$s1h@ixnews2.ix.netcom.com> artgoat@ix.netcom.com (VW) writes:
- > jabar@aa.net (Jerry Barlow) wrote:
- >
- > >Benjamin Kenobi (fkrj@crux4.cit.cornell.edu) wrote:
- >
- >
- > >: I'm really interested in buying an A4000T motherboard.
- >
- > >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.
- >
- > 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!
- >
- > 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.
- >
- > Victor Wren
- >
- >
- >
-
- --
-
- You can try calling "The Lively Computer" at 619-589-9455. They used to do
- 3.x upgrades of the u209 pal to rev -03. They are currently waiting on the
- ok to continue doing this since AT now owns the rights to the pal equations
- for burning the pal chip. The guy told me he should know in a couple of
- weeks on this. They charge 100 buck to upgrade the card. They may also
- be willing to upgrade you superbuster chip to rev 11. I didn't ask since
- I was lucky and got a socketed buster.
-
-
-
-
- Cory Palmer
- cpalmer@nando.net
-
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