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From: BAXTER_A@wehi.dn.mu.oz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: RE: More on CMI
Message-ID: <2960@wehi.dn.mu.oz>
Date: 14 Nov 89 18:58:01 GMT
Organization: Walter & Eliza Hall Institute
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Hmmm.. I'm glad it works for someone. I've heard of a more recent version from
CMI that does work (I bought mine 3-4 months ago from LightSpeed), but I am not
sure whether it is just that the same version as mine would work on NTSC any
way. The story is: Repeated crashes and aborted boots (more often with cold
boots). You'd know if you had it! Does not occur if you remove 68881 or CMI
board. Has occured on my A500 (rev5) and a friends (rev 6.?). Did not happen if
I used the old Agnus. I wrote to CMI, not a whisper. I've hunted through the 
net and there are actually quite a lot of people who have bought and given up
on the CMI PA. About 2-3 months ago, an employee of CMI (hello! are you still
out there??!!) said something about the old boards being unreliable when
someone complained on the net and suggested they get an upgraded version.
Someone else wrote something about C= sticking in a capacitor instead of a
resistor somewhere on the A500 mother board which played havoc with piggyback
boards (a denial would be nice, C= :-) ). Even if that's true, I paid a
substantial sum for something which it says on the pack of the pack will do
something it does not. I'm pissed off.
Regards Alan