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From: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: CSA Accelerator
Keywords: Accelerator, custom chip
Message-ID: <1936@becker.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jan 90 19:34:03 GMT
References: <4098@rayssdb.ray.com> <1285@marlin.NOSC.MIL> <1990Jan7.052421.13946@wilbur.uucp>
Reply-To: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Organization: G. T. S., Toronto, Ontario
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In article <1990Jan7.052421.13946@wilbur.uucp> scott@wilbur.uucp (Scott Beckstead) writes:
|I happen to be the proud owner of the original CSA 68020 accelerator card
|serial number 2.  However I happen to also be the not so proud owner of a
|Starboard II 2meg/multifunction card.  The problem is that the Starboard II
|refuses to work correctly with the CSA board.  I have contacted both companies
|and what I get from CSA is that they have tried to get Microbotics to work
|with them to fix the problem and have given up after several years of trying
|the story I get from Microbotics is that once you install the '020 in the AMIGA
|it is no longer an AMIGA and they will not be responsible for the consequences
|of my actions.  No help is forthcoming from Microbotics and the fixes
|recomended by CSA don't quite work (minor improvement but not full function)
|Since I use my A1000 for video (3d rendering etc.) I need the speed increase
|provided by the 68020 and I need the ram afforded by the Starboard.  I think
|that Microbotics attitude is deplorable and have resolved not to buy any more
|products made by this comapny (please feel free to join the boycott)
|however much satisfaction that this gives me it does not solve my problem.
|If anybody out there can help me I would appreciate it greatly.  

	I can't offer any help unfortunately, but I
	would like to comment that it looks to me
	that Microbotics weren't able to come up with
	a fix and didn't want to admit it.  My instinct
	tells me that they might not be too technically
	swift and didn't want to mess with something
	that they somehow got working.

	Perhaps this isn't the case, it's only a guess -
	but I am left with an uneasy feeling whenever
	a company takes such an uncompromising stand
	for no understandable reason.

	In any case, good luck...

Sigh,
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