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From: cogswell@egrunix.UUCP (Dan Cogswell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Rev. 6.0 & 6.1 Motherboards.
Message-ID: <198@egrunix.UUCP>
Date: 11 Oct 89 12:37:26 GMT
References: <0897.AA0897@tronix> <337@syteke.be>
Reply-To: cogswell@unix.secs.oakland.edu.UUCP (Dan Cogswell)
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester, MI
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In article <337@syteke.be> jim@syteke.UUCP (Jim Sanchez) writes:
>AMEN! I have a REV 6 motherboard for which I bought a Hardframe more than
>three months ago and it STILL doesn't work.  I keep asking Microbotics
>and they just say that Commodore is "working on it".  Well I for one
>am sick and tired of the entire fiasco and wish I could get a straigh
>answer from SOMEBODY on this subject.  In the meantime, anyone who
>buys a REV 6 motherboard is potentially getting screwed!  I do not

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The key word here is "Potentially".  I bought a 2000 with a 6.0 motherboard,
a HardFrame, and an 8-Up! with 2 megs RAM, but I've had absolutely no problems
with it.  In fact, it has been much less troublesome than my old 500 (which
is gone now, BTW).

One thing I did do, though: I replaced the 68000 with a 68010 (ceramic, 
10 MHz).  I tend to doubt that this makes a difference, but I've heard rumors 
that there are some bad CPUs floating around in the 6.0 motherboards.

>Jim Sanchez  {sun,hplabs}!sytek!syteke!jim OR
>Hughes LAN Systems, Brussels  mcvax!prlb2!sunbim!syteke!jim

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