Path: utzoo!censor!becker!douglee
From: douglee@becker.UUCP (Doug Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A1000 Rejuvenator Project
Message-ID: <800@becker.UUCP>
Date: 17 Aug 89 04:37:08 GMT
References: <18566.24DF49E1@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> <3743@csd4.milw.wisc.edu> <1775@ucqais.uc.edu>
Reply-To: douglee@becker.UUCP (Doug Lee)
Organization: G. T. S., Toronto, Ontario
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In article <1775@ucqais.uc.edu> ggibeau@ucqais.uc.edu (George Gibeau) writes:
>In article <3743@csd4.milw.wisc.edu>, dannys@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Daniel Shurilla) writes:
>>
>> What will be the availability of the schematics for this project? I'm
>> sure that many A1000 owners are hardware literate enough to wire wrap
>> a suitable board and get it to work. It may not be pretty but for
>> adventuresome technicians our A1000's could be FAT (AGNES) CITY!
>
>I doubt Greg will release schematics of project (ala LUCAS). He
How is a buyer supposed to repair it when it breaks? As a hardware
hacker and repair technician, I KNOW everything breaks sooner or
later and have already gotten burned a couple of times by third-party
suppliers not providing enough technical data to maintain stuff.
I expect to have my machine long after most small companies have
disappeared. Many of them have already and the machine hasn't even
completed it's life cycle.
>does not intend to release it as a kit or a do it yourself. Since
>delaers are not suppossed to sell new Agnes chips directly to
>customers (I know, not everyone that owns an Amiga is an idiot :-)),
>he wants to play by the rules.
^^^^^
There aren't any rules against good documentation. Perhaps there
should be rules against selling stuff without documentation.
Apparently the radio business went through a similar pattern in the
1930's where manufacturers all sold undocumented stuff. Eventually
they had to issue schematics so the things could be repaired. I hope we
haven't reached such a state in our throw-away society that major computer
peripherals/addons are considered disposable. Sorry to disrupt the net with
a flame, but no-one else seems to have addressed this issue and it has been
bugging me for a while. I also find the Agnus board interesting, but will
only buy it if I can keep it for good . I have pretty much
decided against buying any more undocumented hardware for the machine
as I don't want to have to reverse engineer it when it breaks or pay someone
else to do what I can do myself, not to mention the problem of increasing
down time from a few minutes to perhaps days or weeks. Just for interest,
the last time my 1000 died, an 8520 chip died while I was on-line and I was
able to fix it without even having to logoff the remote system. Total down
time was about 10 minutes, most of it hunting for the replacement 8520.
While I admit that hardware types are in the minority, they still need
to know. Flame Off
>Regards,
>
> George
regards
<<>>
>
>--
>During the last year, more people have seen Elvis than have seen
>Amiga ads, BUT - this is changing for the better ;-) ;-) ;-)
Hopefully the Amiga lasts longer and has a happier demise than Elvis :-)
--
Doug Lee
douglee@becker
416-461-5357