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From: etxtomp@eos.ericsson.se (Tommy Petersson)
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Subject: Re: Autobootable A2090
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Date: 30 Nov 90 15:33:45 GMT
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In article <4e4d0fc2.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> tedg@apollo.HP.COM (Ted Grzesik) writes:
-Hi,
-
-I have an A2000 with the old A2090 (correct part #?) hard disk controller
-which doesn't auto-boot (how could they have possibly left this feature out
-to begin with?!?).
-
-I remember reading about an add-on card that allows you to auto-boot with the
-existing HD controller.  Anyone know anything about this?
-
-If it matters, I have a Seagate 251 (43Mb SCSI) hard disk.
-
-Thanks,
-Ted Grzesik
-tedg@apollo.hp.com
-
-"Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities".
-                            -- Mark Twain  (Samuel Clemens)

Commodore Germany publicly announced it 20 months ago as the A2090B. It
never did (or will) be produced, as it seems. I believe that there is
a similar card anyway, made by a third-party German developer. I will
try to dig it up, if noone else knows it, off-hand.