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 Lines: 59 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