No more new ACA1230/56 ever?

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Problem with having the customer supply the CPU is the user error factor.

No company wants to have to field support calls when some guy buys their bare card and is trying to cram a supposedly "working" second hand pull '0x0 onto it.  No matter how many times you can put in bold text on the warranty sheet "Installation of a working CPU chip is up to the user, and we do not support anything but the basic, bare board" there will always be some support issues.

Selling the full card allows for QC and avoids the above, but I'd certainly welcome bare cards if it got accels into more peoples hands.

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The difference being bbond is people building new commodity hardware PC's are not generally having to buy second hand "pulls" for CPU's.  I need an i7 or AM3, I can buy one new in box at the store 1 mile from my house.

What happens when some guy buys a supposedly "working" '030 off ebay to slap in a theoretical "bare" ACA card, and said chip is DOA, or worse yet, could be mangled to the point it may cause damage to said ACA card?

From a business standpoint, I understand fully why they would not ever offer a "bare" board.  Quality Control.

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Exactly, Stefcep2.  Not worth the hassles.

Tension, the ACA boards are some of the most reasonably priced accels that have ever been offered for the wedge Amiga's, a real bang for buck deal.  IC could have cranked the price up significantly and people would still be buying them up.