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- Path: coranto.ucs.mun.ca!gnoel
- From: gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (George Noel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: GREAT NEWS!!!!!
- Date: 16 Jan 1996 13:23:57 GMT
- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Sender: gnoel@plato.ucs.mun.ca
- Message-ID: <4dg8td$k4s@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
- References: <4d5kv4$fi5@leporello.cs.unibo.it> <4d8oqp$tp4@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> <4d9icd$cab@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> <4dao6g$6fp@turtle.apana.org.au>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: plato.ucs.mun.ca
- Summary: Hacks and upgrades
- Keywords: Lowend
-
- In article <4dao6g$6fp@turtle.apana.org.au>,
- James McArthur <jamesm@turtle.apana.org.au> wrote:
- >George Noel (gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca) wrote:
- >: In article <4d8oqp$tp4@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>,
- >: Byron Montgomerie <bmontgom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca> wrote:
- >: >Andrea Morolli (morolli@cs.unibo.it) wrote:
- >: >
- >
- >: Maybe the poster misinterpreted the Italian guy in that he meant the new
- >: A1200 would be 40 MHz and not 68040 based. The lowest denomanator 68k
- >: machine sold nowadays is the MAC with a 68040 and that might even soon be
- >: changing. Maybe the software developers and AT realized they needed the
- >: '040 to keep up slightly with todays technolgy and they changed their
- >: design but how would this affect price? Maybe they pulled the $3500
- >: A4000t trick again just the opposite.. getting everyone to expect an '030
- >: and having complaints it is not enough and then reveal it has an '040 and
- >: make it look very good in everyones eyes! I highly doubt this though and
- >: would say it is still the 68EC030 at 40 MHz.
- >
- >Either way, it means that the market lowend becomes higher then my
- >Amiga's lowend :-(
-
- But this would only hopefully be for one year, possibly two.
-
- >: problems. I know I for one would like to be able to use the wealth of
- >: A1200 software already out there and not have it all gone to waste
- >: because of a stupid disk drive spinning .5 times faster then older
- >: drives. Is there not a way to fix this via hardware since it cannot be
- >: fixed via the OS?
- >
- >There is a hack on Aminet, in hard/hack/ that supposedly fixes the drive
- >problem on new A1200's. I havent tried it, or even d/l'd it, but it was
- >on the "todays uploads" that I get sent every day..
-
- If this is indeed true and works then AT should implement it for the next
- set of drives unless it costs too much to the overall design, or they
- can't get the parts required for this hack (Chinon excuse) or they want
- to encourage coders to stop hitting the hardware so as a new surprise
- they are using a McDonalds marketing technique called "Drive of the
- month" instead of "Taste Of The Month" in which each month the A1200 is
- produced they offer a different hack on the drive to make it not
- compatible with the month's before! >:->
-
- >: Technologies but it would save me compatibility issues. Now if they put
- >: an 040 in the new A1200+ then that would pose another problem as new
- >: software would require it and I wouldn't be able to put it in the old
- >: A1200 so either way it looks like a lot of people might lose with this
- >
- >How much would people be willing to pay for such a machine?? Would $699
- >US be too much (or too cheap??) Or about $1750 AUS.
-
- $699 for such a machine would be too cheap I would assume.
-
- -=*George*=-
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