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From: robinson@shadow.Berkeley.EDU (Michael Robinson)
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Subject: Re: Sasquatch Print
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Date: Fri, 5-Sep-86 19:12:11 EDT
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In article <697@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) writes:
>First, FCC issues - that's a real microprocessor bus with 7MHz+ signals.  The
>cable would have to very well shielded to avoid problems.
>
>Second, the expansion connector is not buffered.  The pins connect directly to
>the 68000.  If you put to much load and/or too long a wire on them, your system
>will stop working, or a least become quite flakey.

I am sick of this discussion of all the stupid reasons why the sidecar can't
be placed on the top of the computer.  From the discussion you would think
that shielded cable would have to be smuggled in from Borneo.  For all you 
engineers at Commodore, all I ask is, if you do in fact design the sidecar
to go on the side of the computer, that you put an edge connector, identical
to the one on the Amiga, on the right-hand side of the Sidecar.  That way some
clever enterpreneur (like myself, for instance) can become filthy rich selling
little three inch jumpers to all those people out there who really want to put
their Sidecars in a sensible location.  Or, if you prefer, I will design and 
engineer the jumper free of charge for you (I will, of course, guarantee it
passes FCC, assuming the rest of the Sidecar does).

If the Amiga bus cannot drive an extra three inches of copper, then something
must be seriously amiss at Commodore.

As things stand, if someone *really* wanted to put their Sidecar on top of the
computer they would have to run about two feet of ribbon cable and take their
chances with random bus flakiness and the FCC be damned.
>George Robbins - now working with,	uucp: {ihnp4|seismo|caip}!cbmvax!grr
>but no way officially representing	arpa: cbmvax!grr@seismo.css.GOV
>Commodore, Engineering Department	fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)


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