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- From: skank@iastate.edu (George L. Hall-Skank)
- Subject: Re: A1200 Custom Chips..
- Message-ID: <Bz72z7.D5n@news.iastate.edu>
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
- References: <1992Dec9.044904.19259@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA> <Bz03zC.C51@news.iastate.edu>
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 11:09:06 GMT
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- In article <Bz03zC.C51@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett) writes:
- >
- > Yeah, right. It would be VERY easy for Commodore to offer a motherboard
- >upgrade for A3000 systems, but they are not going to. Years ago, Commodore
- >could have offered motherboard upgrades for A1000 systems, but didn't bother
- >to do so then, either. Commodore has never offered a motherboard upgrade for
- >any Amiga. Why should they start with the A4000?
- >
- >---
- >| Marc Barrett -MB- | email: barrett@iastate.edu
- >--------------------------------------------------
-
- While it might be easy for Commodore to offer a motherboard upgrade
- for a given system I can see no way this could be done econimically.
- Consider the following, in order for a motherboard swap to be economical
- for Commodore, the new motherboard would have to be from a currently
- mass produced product, then there would be no re-engineering costs
- involved. Furthermore, this new board would have to have it's ports and
- connectors in the same place as they were on the machine it's supposed
- to swap into. Consider the 3000 and 4000. In order for a motherboard
- swap to be economical for Commodore the 4000 motherboard would have
- to have the same form factor as the motherboard for the 3000. The
- mouse ports would have to be on the right side (instead of the left),
- all the ports in the rear of the machine would have to be in the same
- place, and the 4000 would need a scsi controller. Clearly this is not
- the case. Finally, in order for your new computer to be protected by it's
- 1-year warrenty and Commodore Direct service the swap would have to be
- performed by an Authorized Commodore Dealer who would charge you $65 an
- hour for the work. After you have bought the new board (you don't
- expect the new board to be free do you?), what have you (the consumer) saved?
-
- NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-
- So what's the big deal?
- --George
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