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From: wasp@chumly.ka.sub.org (Walter Mildenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Autobootable A2090
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Date: 6 Dec 90 19:28:55 GMT
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In article <184e2861.ARN04338@adspdk.UUCP>, Henrik Clausen writes:
| [...]
|   I've seen a tiny (real tiny!) ZorroII card by CombiTec that did this. It
|allows autoboot off FFS partitions, SCSI drives and other goodies, and
|seems to speed the ST506 drive quite a bit. Worked very neat, but the
|company went broke before it was mass markeded :-(  A recommended retail
|price at $99 sounded almost too good to be true!
|
|   The product made the A2090 better than the A2090A, and they also had
|upgrade chip sets for the A2090A controller.
|
|   Perhaps some other company took over the product??

There is a Company called Macrosystems. This company is almost identical to
CombiTec , and the products ARE identical: This A2090-autoboot-card costs
DM 159,- (~US $110). The card isn't expensiver then before, the US$ is
weaker ;-)

The address is:
Macro-Systems
Gahlenfeldstrasse 6
D-W-5804 Herdecke
F.R.G.

(I don't have anything to do with this company.)

Regards
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Walter Mildenberger, Morgenstr. 55, W-7500 Karlsruhe 1, FRG
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