Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!qucdn!leek
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: games & multitasking
Organization: Queen's University at Kingston
Date: Sunday, 10 Jun 1990 23:25:49 EDT
From: <LEEK@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
Message-ID: <90161.232549LEEK@QUCDN.BITNET>
References: <90159.131952LEEK@QUCDN.BITNET> <21524@estelle.udel.EDU>
 <90160.152619LEEK@QUCDN.BITNET> <13000@netcom.UUCP>

In article <13000@netcom.UUCP>, mcmahan@netcom.UUCP (Dave Mc Mahan) says:
>
> In a previous article, LEEK@QUCDN.QueensU.CA writes:
>>Last time I check, Paula was about $60 and 8520 was about $15 a piece.  Both
>>of them are not user installable.  The replacement labour cost might range   m
>fro
>>$25 to $50.  That's the reason why I say I would sue any copy protection that
>>damage my machine. (about 3 times already).
>
>I don't have first hand knowledge of Paula, but I paid $20 (plus tax) for the
>8520 CIA and plugged it in myself.  All I needed was a phillips head          r
>screwdrive
>and the knowledge of which chip was CIA-A and which was CIA-B (there are two
>8520 chips in the amiga, I only smoked one of them).  It took about 15
>minutes.
>I have an A2000.  It seems that Paula would be about as simple to replace.
>I did this replacement about 1 week ago.

You should try replacing the 8520 on a 1000 (or a 500 ?)  Taking off and
replacing the shield alone in a 1000 takes 10 minutes. :)  In any way, although
I can do the replacement myself, I'll still bill labour cost if someone blew
up a chip in my machine.

>
>By the way, blowing up the CIA chip was entirely my fault, and I take full
>credit/responsibility  for doing it.
>
>
>   -dave

I blew a input pin on my CIA too.  I managed to fix it up so I save $20. :)

K. C. Lee