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From: dtiberio@csserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio)
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Subject: Re: Update on a previous post about BaseBoard expan sys.
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Date: 28 Jan 91 21:59:27 GMT
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In article <9101180352.AA02634@czaeap.UUCP> claris!portal!czaeap!cpc@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Chris Cebelenski) writes:
>This is an update to a previous posting:
>
>Recently I had the honor of owning and working with my own BaseBoard 4MB
>expansion system for my A500...  Well, at least for a short time...
>
>Everything seemed to work fine, EXCEPT that the clock would NOT hold
>it's time or date over a cold boot.  Warm boot, fine, cold boot, no.
>
>Alas, all was for naught.  It seems that their product is completetly
>incompatible with VERY EARLY A500's.  If you bought your A500 early (IE:
>paid the full almost-$800 price), you might be troubled with some incompatibility
>problems later...  I also own a Supra HD interface (A very old one, and I
>hacked together my own HD from components) so I might try the 2Mb supra
>board and spend the rest of the money left over on an At-Once board or
>something.  Any comments or alternative suggestions??
>
  Last summer I went 2 months without using my 6mth old A500 and 3mth old 
Baseboard (and survived).

  In September when I turned it back on, my computer didn't work. After some
fidgeting, I got it to work. No exp ram was available and the clock was
wrong. Eventually I got the clock to survive colde boots. Eventually the ram
also worked, although it soon disappeared. My screen drew horizontal lines
covering half the screen until my system 'warmed up' (10 minutes). After it never ever worked again, I paid $30 to have it cleaned and it now works fine,
although the clock occasionally does something goofy. 

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