Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!princeton!allegra!ulysses!sfmag!sfsup!perry From: perry@sfsup.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: CLtd 20M hard disk Message-ID: <1155@sfsup.UUCP> Date: Tue, 3-Mar-87 11:08:14 EST Article-I.D.: sfsup.1155 Posted: Tue Mar 3 11:08:14 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 7-Mar-87 05:00:09 EST References: <383@pttesac.UUCP> <2781@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> Organization: AT&T-IS, Summit N.J. USA Lines: 36 Summary: Misplaced Appreciation In article <2781@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU>, hutch@sdcsvax.UUCP writes: > Strange that your C Ltd. aMEGA card should be the problem, I just got a > CMI Rom'd Kickstart and they had a mod from C Ltd. due to change in start > up sequence you get with ROMs instead of disk (faster too!!!). Due to > there well written and descriptive documentation, I tend to trust CMI. > When I talked to them, they had tried the ROMs with many add ons, and had > no problems (except with the aMEGA). When I first got the kit, the 1.2 > disk with it had some PAL legs stuffed through it (thanks UPS :-). They > sent me another one by 2day UPS as soon as I called, so they seem to care. > At $134 it looks like the cheapest 256k expansion I can get. FLAME ON! They damn well better care since the aMega was their botched design in the first place. And...didn't CMI design the C Ltd disk controller also? You mean, the same company which doesn't have the technical competence to make a perfectly working memory board (and has to resort to claiming that there are problems with the Amiga) can't even make their other products work with each other? And one more thing (though there's many more things I could go into), $134 dollars for a couple of ROMs, a socket and some wires? And you call that a cheap expansion upgrade? Gimmie a break. To top it all off, while we're congratulating CMI for their consumer oriented pricing and their technical know how, let's also note that CBM distributed instructions on how to per- form the magical kick start elimination three different ways. Instead of spending 134 buck on CMI's ``KickStart Eliminator'' why not spend 5 cents on a xeroxed page of structions and 15 bucks worth of parts, you'll get the same thing. FLAME OFF - but still boiling