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From: murphy@pur-phy (William J. Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amigas -- why the 90 day warranty?
Message-ID: <2705@pur-phy>
Date: 1 Nov 89 13:29:25 GMT
References: <1989Oct15.021329.2118@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <23196@cup.portal.com> <1989Oct24.193454.23743@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <72137@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <1989Oct31.180252.7798@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
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In article <1989Oct31.180252.7798@ddsw1.MCS.COM> karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger) writes:
>
>THOSE CUSTOM CHIPS CANNOT BE IGNORED.  I can get nearly ANY part for a PC
>clone from any one of 100 distributors.  Half of the Ami's stuff is CUSTOM
>and available ONLY from Commodore.  Monopolistic pricing sets in under this
>circumstance.
>--
>Karl Denninger (karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM, <well-connected>!ddsw1!karl)
>Public Access Data Line: [+1 312 566-8911], Voice: [+1 312 566-8910]
>Macro Computer Solutions, Inc.		"Quality Solutions at a Fair Price"


Karl, 
    You need to check your facts a little more carefully.  If you are
referring to the chips such as Gary, Buster, Paula, ... There are companies
which do sell them even though they are exclusively made by C=.  One such
company is called Grapevine.  They have run ads in the most recent
AmigaWorld and in one of the recent Amiga Transactor issues.  So the gist
is yes C= is the only one making these chips, but they are available from
more places than just C=.

-- 
 Bill Murphy        murphy@newton.physics.purdue.edu