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From: mykes@3comvax.UUCP (Mike Schwartz)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Fraud And Deceit In The Memory Board Market
Message-ID: <567@3comvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 1-Jul-86 18:16:45 EDT
Article-I.D.: 3comvax.567
Posted: Tue Jul  1 18:16:45 1986
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Reply-To: mykes@3comvax.UUCP (Mike Schwartz)
Organization: 3Com Corp; Mountain View, CA
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Keywords: A *purported* Buyer's Guide

>>> some writing about Amega board from CardCo and Flames about what
>>> Perry Kivlowitz (sorry if I misspelled it)...

I just got my 1MB board from CardCo, and it looks wonderful!  It is
supposed to be 100% Amiga approved, passes through the bus, fits nicely
on the side of the Amiga.  After booting and copying Manx library to ram:
I have 1.29 MB free memory.  It autoconfigs fine, and all my software
appears to run fine.  The only negatives I have seen so far have nothing
to do with the CardCo board.  Autoconfig requires 80K of ram for I don't
know what (maybe someone who knows can fill us in).  Also, the AddBuffers
command in 1.2 uses chip memory exclusively, so it is not possible to add
as many as 750 buffers (I wish I had 2MB and could add 1788 buffers to
each drive).

Another bit of news about CardCo... They went out of business a week or two
ago.  When I called to order the ram board, the phone was answered by
Computers Anonymous, a retail computer store.  But not to fret, apparently
Computers Anonymous is indeed a "phoenix" (rises from the ashes) company
from CardCo, and there will be no shortage of CardCo boards, probably ever.
CardCo has a fine reputation with its C64 product line, and their first
Amiga product looks wonderful.  

I do not have any flames for Perry, as I think he would have mentioned
CardCo IF HE HAD KNOWN about them or it must have slipped his mind.  He did
not mention any companies with bad boards, only those that he knew were
good ones.  I'm sure it is safe to say, he will add CardCo to his
"approved" list.  I appreciate the fact that Perry was simply warning us
to beware.  I would hope that if someone gets burned, we all would find
out so we don't get burned ourselves.  Slander, on the other hand, is
against the law and you can get sued for it, so proper judgement should
be used when flaming products or companies.  However, Ralph Nader doesn't
get sued too much, does he?