Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!scs!spl1!ddsw1!gryphon!richard
From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Autoboot
Message-ID: <5524@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 13 Aug 88 06:51:40 GMT
Article-I.D.: gryphon.5524
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
Lines: 32
Summary: COMMERCIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

(Hit `n' now if you're offended by commercial announcements)

In article <1098@ndsuvax.UUCP> ncreed@ndsuvax.UUCP (Walter Reed) writes:
>(Bob Page) writes:
>)Andy Finkel:
>]>(we don't boot from printers, either)
>]richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton):
>]>I have this PostSctript printer sitting here, 2+MB ram, 68000 ...
>]So put in a boot ROM, eh? ;-) Maybe CBM will poll the parallel port in
>]1.4.  Hmmm, if they don't in 1.3, that means you can't autoboot the
>]Microbotics drive, right?  Isn't it on the parallel port?
>]So poll the serial port in 1.3; maybe I can have my MIDI devices
>]autoboot some MusicOS into the Amiga. :-)
>]I have this clock with battery-backed RAM sitting on my serial port...
>Wait! don't stop there...  How about booting off the keyboard?  Then you
>could type in the bootcode in hex...  That one clock that goes between the
>keyboard and the amiga has some ram in it too... :-)  Then there is
>the game ports -- WHAT?  you won't support booting off the game ports?
>Damn, and I have this mouse with 1 meg of ram too :-) :-)

Trailing Edge Technology - computer systems and hardware division, is 
pleased to announce the availability of the ``Real Men'' Amiga 500/1000/2000
autoboot module.

For $499.95 you get a device that plugs into a game port (either one)
and interfaces the A500/1000/2000 to a bank of lights and switches.

When ordering, specify PDP 11/45 or the more powerful IMSAI 8080.

-- 
                 Who are these ones that would lead us now ?
richard@gryphon.CTS.COM                               {backbone}!gryphon!richard