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From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: New Gordo Agnes...?
Message-ID: <7647@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 13 Aug 89 16:14:12 GMT
References: <10721@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <10721@boulder.Colorado.EDU> hunt@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Lee Cameron Hunt) writes:
> Here in Boulder, CO I was talking to a local dealer and he was telling
> me that the new Amigas were shipped with a daughterboard attached to the
> Agnes which, in turn, is socketed in the motherboard.  He implied that this
> was new, that previously the Agnes was simply socketed in the motherboard
> directly.  
> 
>    Is this true?  If so, any reason? (prep for the ECS, perhaps?)

No, this person sounds rather confused.  Some A2000's do have a little
tower board over by the DRAM to make static column DRAM work with the
Amiga chipset, but Agnus sits tight in her normal socket...

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