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From: eric@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (Eric Lavitsky)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Product info...
Message-ID: <5671@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU>
Date: Wed, 3-Sep-86 23:01:02 EDT
Article-I.D.: topaz.5671
Posted: Wed Sep  3 23:01:02 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 4-Sep-86 03:34:35 EDT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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Keywords: ASDG Memory Expansion

<Oh I wish I were a news line eater... 

Got this from the Well, thought it might be of interest to the net...

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from perry@well

 	How's  $750  for  a  fully ZORRO compatible 2MB  RAM board with no
 wait states and fully autoconfiguring? We've just started final production
 on our first run of boards. Shipping will begin  Sept 22nd, but if you are
 in a special hurry we can get a board to you sooner.
 
 	And how about a  $150 two slot  ZORRO  card  rack? Why reduce your
 options with a terminal side  mounted product? Or, why pay $1800 bucks for
 an expensive ZORRO back  plane? Buy  a  Mini-Rack-B (for Budget) and start
 using ZORRO products NOW!
 
 	Two slots  not  enough? In November we'll introduce the Mini-Rack.
 Its a four slot  ZORRO  back plane fitting above your amiga. If you bought
 a Mini-Rack-B  we'll  buy  it back  at  full  price  towards  purchasing a 
 Mini-Rack. That's $300 or $150 with a Mini-Rack-B trade in.
 
 	ASDG Inc. No bull shit. Just excellence.
 
 	Perry (President, ASDG Inc.) Kivolowitz
        
 	Forgot to mention. All ASDG products have a ONE YEAR parts and labor
 	warranty.
 
 	See us at the developers fair.
 
 	Perry

 	The Mini-Rack-B is  a  two  slot backplane fitting on the side of
 the Amiga. It contains a 6  Amp power  supply and does not obscure either
 mouse port (imagine a higher, wider Alegra). The Mini-Rack-B's dimensions
 are 6'' wide x 10'' high x 10'' deep.
 
 	The intent of this product  is  to provide as inexpensive a Zorro
 backplane as possible to the consumer. ASDG will produce (starting Novem-
 ber) a ``serious'' backplane at which time we will BUY BACK AT FULL PRICE
 any Mini-Rack-B for upgrade to a Mini-Rack.
 
 	The Mini-Rack is  a  four  slot  fully Zorro compatible backplane
 which resides above the  Amiga,  below your monitor. The final height has
 not been determined yet but will  be  less  than  5 inches. A 9 to 12 Amp
 power supply will be contained within the Mini-Rack.
 
        
 	So, if you  bought a  Mini-Rack-B now,  used it till November and
 decided you needed more  expansion space, we'll buy your Mini-Rack-B back
 for what you paid for it when you upgrade to a Mini-Rack.
 
 	We don't anticipate any  of  our  backplane  products passing the
 bus.
 
 	ASDG can be reached by mail at:
 
 	ASDG Inc.
 	280 River Rd.
 	Suite 54A
 	Piscataway N.J.
 	08854
 
 	And by phone at (201) 540 - 9670
 
 	The 2Mbyte card is only one way you can get ram boards from us.
 We have:
 
 	.5M	1/2MByte Ram	$450 List	$370 Intro Dev/UG Price
 	1M	1  Mbyte Ram	$650 List	$550 Intro Dev/UG Price
 and	2M	2  Mbytes Ram	$900 List	$750 Intro Dev/UG Price
        
 
 The .5M and 1M are upgradable to the 2M simply by adding 256K ram parts. No
 new PALS are needed. Normally, the .5M and 1M ram sections are not socketed
 since we do  not  want to pass the cost of sockets on to every customer. We
 will socket the .5M  ram section for $75. We will socket the 1M ram section
 for $50. Socketed ram means that you don't need a soldering iron to add the
 256K parts. 
 
 	The boards come  with  a one year warranty covering parts and labor
 for the components we provided  (ie: we do not cover any ram you might have
 added).
 
 	In November or December we will  come  out with EDC versions of our
 ram products (Error Detecting and Correcting) if anyone's interested.
 
 	Something I am looking forward to myself, is our SMGC.
 
 	S - 	4 DMA driven serial ports
 	M - 	68881 Math Chip
 	G - 	DMA driven GPIB (IEEE 488)
 	C - 	Battery backed up clock
 
 	This product will  be available in any of 15 combinations (ie: any
        
 combination  ranging from just  one section  to all four).  We haven't set
 pricing yet (the product won't be released till November or December)  but
 our goal is to provide any TWO functions for LESS than other manufacturers
 can provide one. Plus, four products taking up only  one Zorro  slot! Each
 section will be auto-configuring and have its own AmigaDos driver.
 
 
 	Since ASDG's start in the Amiga market place we've had two goals:
 
 (1)	Five hardware products in 1986
 
 	Mini-Rack-B				September 22nd
 	.5M, 1M, 2M Memory Board		September 22nd
 	Mini-Rack				November  22nd
 	.5MEDC, 1MEDC, 2MEDC Memory Board	December
 	SMGC					December
 
 (2)	We're out to prove that it's possible to make quality hardware
 	products and STILL become succesfull.
 
 Perry

 Re:	Restorable RAM Disk
        
 
 	Our memory boards  do not clear or otherwise alter their contents
 during system reset (Cntrl-Amiga-Amiga). As such, provided their contents
 were not blown away by the dying program, it should be possible to recon-
 struct the RAM disk. 
 
 	I'm not promising that the software to perform this function will
 be part of our delivered product but we will work on it. If we do develop
 this software, we will not charge for it.
 
 (Or maybe someone  out there in developer land has already developed this
 code and would like us to distribute it?)
 
 Perry

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Disclaimer: I do not work for ASDG or Commodore-Amiga, or any hardware
	manfacturer that I can think of, though this *could* always change.

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