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Re: dead system - have you ever been that stupid ?
« on: June 12, 2003, 01:05:21 PM »
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All the Amiga hardware out there has lived well past it's design life...


That is the scary thing.  I've an A500 pushing it's sixteenth birthday, another just turned thirteen and my two A1200's are ten years old.  That's a combined age of Forty Nine years.  From four Amigas!

Seriously though, despite all the busboards and accelerator cards that we update our systems with, the motherboard is always the oldest part.  Not only that, but I'm reliant on floppy drives, power supplies, keyboards etc of similar vintage.  Even my Mediator A1200 still has it's original floppy plugged in.  

I'll just hang on a little longer, as it's not as if spares are in short supply in my house right now!
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Re: dead system - have you ever been that stupid ?
« Reply #1 on: June 12, 2003, 05:50:24 PM »
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analogic do amiga repairs


Not wishing to sound libellous here but be VERY careful when dealing with Analogic!  They tried to rip me off with a duff 68060 card a while back, and I've read three posts from other guys reporting problems with them in the past.

If you do send them a dead system, remove the hard drives, extra memory etc first and make sure everything is intact upon return.
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