Hyperion giving opportunity to repair old CSPPC's, preparing for AOS4

[SlimJim]

GGS-data
   
For you who can't read Swedish, the release of AOS4 for CSPPC is drawing closer. Hyperion have found a reliable repair shop repariting broken Cyberstorms for them.   Hyperion is making an offer to relay the broken boards of  GGS's (and other scandinavian resellers') customers to this repair shop. This relay-offer will rotate between the
various Amiga dealers of the world so as not to swamp the repair shop. First off are the Scandinavian resellers.
 


GGS is now asking people to send in their broken CSPPC:s
to them for batch-sending to Hyperion. The price is 1250
SEK (135 euro). If the card cannot be repaired within 3
months, it will be returned by Hyperion at no cost.

If you are an interested Scandinavian (or just really, really
impatient), contact GGS data at
GGS contact form
(Other Scandinavian resellers should have got the same offer)
.
SlimJim

[Darth_X]

batch sending?

So are all the cards shipping in individual boxes with numbers so that the customers get their card back and not someone elses or just all thrown into a big box and *guess whose CSPPC card this belonged to!!!*  :-D

[MarkTime]

I don't get it.  I mean its nice of them and everything, but wouldn't a new board be more reliable than repairing one that broke once already?

I mean why the attention to repairing these old system...usually an OS release drives an upgrade cycle....

[Alkemyst]

Poster: MarkTime Date: 2003/4/11 3:14:45

I don't get it. I mean its nice of them and everything, but wouldn't a new board be more reliable than repairing one that broke once already?

Just like most things, new would be more reliable
but who's going to pay the cost of it.

ppl have cars,tv's,video,washingmachines,hifi's,houses ect...repaired.You dont get the ppl who are fixing these things saying here have a new one.

If ppl want new they can buy new.
some ppl have cards where only the 68kside of it is working,they woulld still like to run aos4 as soon as possible  but cant afford Aone anytime soon.

I mean why the attention to repairing these old system...usually an OS release drives an upgrade cycle....

Only if the OS was not made for the hardware that ppl already have.

A version of Aos4 has been made for such cards.
some ppl have cards where only the 68kside of it is working,they woulld still like to run aos4 as soon as possible  but cant afford Aone anytime soon.

Some ppl want to run Aos4 on Aone&the classic that they have.

This offer is simple for thoes who want their ppc cards fixed we will do it cheaper for you.

[Elwood]

Hi,

Other people may be interested. The people that have a broken CSPPC card may repair it and then sell it, so that they can get money to buy an A1....

[LaBodilsen]

Interesting.

But do the offer also go for BPPC's,  i have two af them laying around with "no post" syndrom.

Or does OS4 not run on the BPPC cards? That would cut off a fairly large chunk of the user base for OS4.

I have tried to contact DCS but never got a answer, so i don't intend to send it to them :-)

[Wilse]

@LaBodilson:

But do the offer also go for BPPC's

Not at this time, no.

Or does OS4 not run on the BPPC cards?

Not yet. Perhaps not ever. As I understand it, there have been problems obtaining documentation for these cards, making it difficult to port the OS to them.

That would cut off a fairly large chunk of the user base for OS4.

I'm pretty sure that's what they were hoping.  ;-)

[takemehomegrandma]

@ MarkTime

I mean why the attention to repairing these old system...usually an OS release drives an upgrade cycle....

Perhaps some components in the OS still relies on some of the old custom chips? That would also explain why there is no A1 version since sometime later, wouldn't it?

[GGS]

Hi SlimJim

Well, this was meant to be announced in Swedish, but thats no problem...

Please now remember, that this service will be done gradually, so the offer will go out in other parts of the world at a later stage.

@ Darth_X

Did you see the Canadian flag I did put for you ?

Now awaiting the hockeygame :-)

[SlimJim]

Well, this was meant to be announced in Swedish,
but thats no problem...
Please now remember, that this service will be done
gradually, so the offer will go out in other parts of the
world at a later stage.

 
Which is why I linked to your original text and stated
repeatedly that only scandinavian resellers were currently
having the offer, with the rest of the world to follow :-).
 
At any rate, I wouldn't have reported this had you not also
written that you urged us to spread the word to people
that might be interested. Plenty of Scandinavians here,
and they don't all read Amigarulez.
.
SlimJim

[redrumloa]

Are you kidding me? This is a GR EAT news post! How many people need a Cyberstorm repair and are affraid to send it out, out of fear? Also 135Euro is very reasonable and with a garantee you cannot go wrong. I'd bet there are alot of happy CyberstormPPC owners out there reading this!

[olegil]

I never really knew there were a lot of people with CSPPC problems. I thought the big bad wolf was the BPPC? I guess that's what I get for not paying attention :-)

[GGS]

Thank You for your help SlimJim ! :-)

/Gunne

[takemehomegrandma]

@ redrumloa

I agree. This is a very nice deal. :-) But it's still going to be "only" a CSPPC when it returns. Perhaps if they could tune it up, boost it with some nitro or something, when they are at it? Just kidding. ;-)

BTW (OT), about your nick, are you a Red Rum Lover or is it about some kind of an AOL Murder? ;-)

@ Olegil

All the CSPPC's are quite old by now. Old things brake!

[MarkTime]

no no...I hope no one misunderstood me...

I agree, its a nice offer, if I had a broken Cyberstorm PPC,  I would certainly repair it, rather than throw it away, and its hard to find a repair shop.  This is a good service.

Of course, it also goes without saying, I would not repair it based on the idea that OS 4 is going to be released 'real soon now.'

As with all announcements, this is an advertisement, for a service that gives those involved a profit.  It is not a non profit goodwill service, and it is not proof that OS 4 is going to be released 'real soon now'

OS 4 will be released when it is released.

That's a standard disclaimer, nothing wrong with getting a Cyberstorm fixed, but I would only fix it so it could run what it is known to run, not based on speculation about OS 4.

I don't have an OS 4 machine at all right now, but under the right circumstances, maybe I'd buy one of those fixed cyberstorms...who knows.