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Subject: Re: Amiga tried to go Europe :-)
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Date: Wed, 16-Sep-87 13:48:04 EDT
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In article <682@uel> bob@uel (Bob Duncanson) writes:
>> > Have anyone tried to rebuild a US-Amiga into an Amiga that
>> > can handle 220V and 50hz. The hz seems to be the real problem
>> > for most monitors and printers, the voltage can be handled with
>> > a powerfull enough transformer.
>
>I have been using my USA-origin Amiga on England for over a year
>on a 220-110 volt step down transformer that also powers a dot matrix
>printer and an external 5.25" disk drive.  The line frequency causes
>no apparent problems.
>-- 
Well, not if you are using an Amiga1000 with V1.1: the clock (not
the system clock, but the time-of-day clock) will run at 5/6th of
the correct speed, unless you use the European 50Hz V1.1-Kickstart disk.
V1.2 automatically recognizes which side of the ocean it is on.
I am using an European Amiga1000 together with a European Commodore Monitor 
in Canada with no problem,
and of course I still get 512 lines intead of 400 in interlaced mode!

 Yann le Cun  yann@ai.toronto.edu