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From: xrtnt@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov (Nigel Tzeng)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Rumors of a Super Agnus
Keywords: Agnus, A500 Rev6
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Date: 9 Mar 90 01:31:08 GMT
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I just read an interesting piece in Amiga Resource (yeah yeah I know...:-))
that sometime when chip prices were high Commandore released Rev 6 500s with
1 meg X 4 chips and a 2Mb Agnus...anybody know of this?  I bring this up in
case one or two of you lucky souls out there have a Revision 6 A500.

I purchased my A500 about 6 mos. ago but I was pretty sure it was a real old
model (I picked up a demo model from a dealer that stopped supporting Amigas
for $500...including 1084 and the A501 (I think) upgrade...) so I opened it up 
on the off chance it was a Rev 6 A500.  Nope...a Rev 5 :-( ...yes yes bitch
and moan.

I was wondering however just what kind of system I bought...Does anyone know
how I can figure out the rough age of my machine?  It is a Rev 5 motherboard,
8370 Agnus (Is this the 1K agnus?  My Avail says only 512K but I read somewhere
some 500s have the 1k Agnus without the mods necessay to make it use the other
512.  Is this true or am I dreaming?)  Also how does one identify the A501?
There is a board in there that gives me a system clock and an additional half
meg.

Just in case you all think I'm a total moron because of these questions, my 500
came with no docs at all and I've been learning AmigaDOS and CLI from trial and
error (But I did finally buy a book :-) )  What the hell..it ran Falcon just
fine with me being totally ignorant...

Thanks All,

Nigel

Replies By EMAIL may or may not work...any of the three addresses SHOULD work
but people have been unable to reach me in the past.


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