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From: filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us (Bela Lubkin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A1000's running continuously
Message-ID: <85.filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us>
Date: 22 Nov 89 10:48:10 GMT
References: <4442@nigel.udel.EDU> <819@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca>
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In article <819@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> Larry Phillips writes:
>In <4442@nigel.udel.EDU>, jones@eglin.af.mil (Calvin Jones, III) writes:
>
>>This machine is the first one sold in our area --- no halfbrite, good 
>>PALs, and a *REAL* 1080 monitor with the little feet to tilt it forward!
>
>A little trivia for the oral history buffs.  The 1080 was the same monitor as
>the 1902, which was designed for the C128.  [...]

Trivia on the other half of Calvin's system: it wasn't one of the VERY first
A1000's, because the very earliest A1000's were shipped with halfbrite.  I've
never figured out why this was the case, but it was.  Apparently the Rev 5
Denise didn't snd a few thousand Rev 6 chips were
shipped in the beginning.  Then Rev 5 shipped for a long time.  I don't know if
the newer A1000's with EHB have Rev 6 Denises or a later version.  (For
reference, my A1000 is serial #XM1050534 and was probably the first sold in
Santa Cruz county, as there was only one store at the time and all evidence
pointed to mine being the first sale).  I can't remember if this was August
or October '85 -- whenever the A1000 first shipped, + up to 2 weeks.

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