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- From: heitkamp@ibm.net (Frederick V. Heitkamp)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: AT selling A4000T motherboards?
- Date: 27 Jan 1996 13:55:09 GMT
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- Dave Haynie (dave.haynie@scala.com) wrote:
- : In <4e3pna$h7r@castle.nando.net>, cpalmer@parsifal.nando.net (Cory Palmer) writes:
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- : >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.
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- : That's silly. You can copyright the expression of an electrical
- : circuit (for example, the printed version of the schematics I wrote
- : drew for the A2000, or the U209.PLD file that Scott Schaeffer and I
- : wrote to make that U209-03 PAL), but you can't copyright the actual
- : circuit. So, for example, anyone can use the U209.JED file to make
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- Are these available for download somewhere. I'd like to have them.
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- I intend to try upgrading my old A4000 with a new U209, U213 and rev
- 11 Buster, if I can convince myself I won't break it in the process.
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- Any hints besides "Don't do it", Dave?
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- Fred Heitkamp
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