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- From: Paul Chan <paul>
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- Subject: Re: _NO_ 030 accelerators Available!
- Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 15:38:59 GMT
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- Kenji Irie <k.irie@student.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
- >Hello Fellow Amigans.
- >This is a small message, warning/conveying that if you are planning to buy an
- >acclerator for your A1200 - Forget it. I have been trying since the very
- >begginning of January, and have only now, had a positive answer for getting a
- >030 accelerator. And this is a special one off <Thanks Gasteiner - Great
- >Service>. The trouble seemd to be that NO-ONE has ANY 030 accelerators for the
- >A1200. This include the following brand names:
-
-
- Erm, what`s going on then?
-
- >
- >Apollo
- >Viper
- >Blizzard
- >
- >Which I have found from Amiga Format. There are none of any type of these brand
- >030 accelerators around. I have been ordering from NZ, and I have amounted
- >quite a phone bill as well. Anyone selse ordering by phone DONT BOTHER riniging
- >Gorden Hargoods - They WONT accept your phone order.. I tried twice. Dont
- >believe their adverts saying you can order by VISA, because you cant.
-
- I`ll check this myself this weekend. I can`t believe they are out of A1200
- accelerators, unless demand has been unbelievably high. Maybe Phase 5 have been
- gearing production towards other things...
-
- I`m not aware of any overseas difficulties, but then I can walk into Gordon
- Harwoods and buy anything I like with my card! ;)
-
- >
- >The problem seems to be that there are no 030's around <And that A1200
- >Accelerators must be selling damn well>.. The earliest time for an 030 board
- >has been the end of March, so there could be a long wait for anyone wanting to
- >purchasea board. Alternatively, 040's and 060's may be available.
-
- Maybe that`s what Harwoods are doing. They probably have a few 060`s available
- and want to get a few sales in... ;)
-
-