Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!rutgers!rochester!kodak!uupsi!sunic!news.funet.fi!funic!santra!nntp!ayrjola From: ayrjola@hut.fi (Ari Yrj|l{) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: Revised Amiga line Message-ID: Date: 11 May 91 14:47:24 GMT References: <4822@orbit.cts.com> <21457@cbmvax.commodore.com> Sender: news@santra.uucp (Cnews - USENET news system) Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Lines: 24 In-Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com's message of 9 May 91 23:06:28 GMT In article <21457@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes: >That certainly COULD be done. I suppose the only reason it hasn't is that >8520s, for example, have been made practically forever. The 6526 used on the >C64 is practically the same chip. So they're as cheap as sand, and while >any larger package could save you a little in board space (might just fit in >a 68 pin PLCC, I haven't checked), but cost you more in chip carrier and socket >money. Seems like C= is making good profit when selling 8520s. In Finland they cost $65 and what I remember about US prices they aren't that much cheaper. On a Finnish Amiga e-mail list many are asking where to get 8520 cheap (me too, I have 6526 right now as CIA2). $65 for something as cheap as sand makes you wonder...;-) -- Ari Yrj|l{ Internet: ayrjola@hut.fi / JMT 3B 231b BITNET : LK-AY AT FINHUT / Money talks - 02150 ESPOO UUCP : ..!mcsun!santra!ayrjola / but not to me Finland, Europe VoiceNet: +358-(9)0-468 3088 :/