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From: zippy@percival.UUCP (Michael Zenner)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16
Subject: Re: Ramblins.
Message-ID: <196@percival.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 15-Jul-86 00:03:46 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 15 00:03:46 1986
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In article <860712132429.00001299.AANZ.AA@UMass> Flash@UMass.BITNET (Rick Flashman) writes:
> But he did talk about the BLITTER chip. Which should be
>out at the end of the summer. (Or so he claims Tramiel himself told him).
>From what I hear, it is a board that you will plug into the socket of
>the 68000 in the ST, it has the blitter chip on it. You then plug the
>68000 into it) Sorry for those with a 520ST, only the 1040ST has a
>removable 68000 chip.
>
This is news to me, I recently cut the CPU from my 1040, then replaced it
with a fresh 68000 (in a socket, of course)...
I have never heard of an ST that came "Pre-Socketed", but it is quite a minor
and inexpensive operation(<$10US), and requires only a minumum amount of
skill... I would hate to see al those 520 owners left without such a great
board over something so relatively minor as a non-socketed chip...

-- 
          Michael Zenner
...!tektronix!reed!percival!zippy