Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!lll-lcc!lll-tis!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!COGSCI.BERKELEY.EDU!bryce From: bryce@COGSCI.BERKELEY.EDU (Bryce Nesbitt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Mail Order Machine Message-ID: <8707150511.AA03345@cogsci.berkeley.edu> Date: Wed, 15-Jul-87 01:11:50 EDT Article-I.D.: cogsci.8707150511.AA03345 Posted: Wed Jul 15 01:11:50 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 17-Jul-87 02:29:17 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 42 > Well, I'm getting kinda tired of waiting for the Amiga 500 to hit the > local computer shop, and I'm reconsidering my purchase anyway. "Maybe I > should go with the Amiga 1000?" I think to myself. MicroComputer Services > is advertising them for pretty cheap... has anyone dealt with these guys? Yes. I sold several thousand 256K ram cards to these people after Commodore ran out. What they are selling is a "refurbished" machine supplied to them by Commodore. These either broke and where fixed, or never-really-broke and where never-really-fixed by Commodore. I beleive that they come with a full warrantee, just like a 100% new Amiga. At the time the customers where getting prompt delivery of a working product, I have no reason to beleive this has changed. If you buy one, yank open the ram card and read the PC board... He's called a Starhumble Pointlessweebel. Or you could just ask that local computer store to order an A500 or two. > The thing I'm most concerned about with the Amiga 500 is the Kickstart > in ROM. Booting right up sounds ok, but then what happens when > Kickstart 1.3 comes along? Any commentary? Commodore has now publicly guaranteed to socket the Kickstart ROM. (yeah! Improvement from the C64 days!). So if 1.3 is a Kickstart upgrade you go to your dealer, plunk down a few bucks, and go on your way. Someone will probably sell a switching socket so you can have both. (Very inside joke --> It'll probably be called "Socket-2-Me", but don't buy it if it's called that.) I sure hope that socket can accept a 512K or 1Meg ROM... 256K is cramped! (and 192K was never more than a delusion) 1.3 could also be a WORKBENCH upgrade. The bootblock on Workbench disks could be upgraded to patch 1.2 Kickstart to be 1.3 Kickstart through the use of the (as of yet) almost undocumented "Rom tags" facility. ----------------------------- |\ /| . Ack! (NAK, EOT, SOH) {o O} . ( " ) bryce@cogsci.berkeley.EDU -or- ucbvax!cogsci!bryce U "Success leads to stagnation; stagnation leads to failure."