Do you have military grade chips in your Amiga?

[DonnyEMU]

LOL I have an old Amiga 1000 myself and i am not sure that what you are describing constitutes millitary grade chips, from what I understand from the Amiga launch in NYC, any chips in original A1000s are there because C=MOS didn't make them. They weren't in the process yet of adapting from 6502 type chips to the motorola processors. Another thing was the Amiga at that time was a "Special Computer" like the macintosh a cut above the other line and was priced and made more expensively. It wasn't till Commodore cost reduced the product with the A500 that C=MOS technologies was fully into production. As far as I know only the 8520 CIA chips (which are a lot like those in the 8 bit line) were actually MOSTek..

Please someone tell me if I am wrong. I can tell you this I don't believe these were millitary "grade" chips because I saw a lot of Amiga 1000's with their CIA chips go bad.. Mostly because people did stupid things like plugging things in and out when they shouldn't have.

So my belief in the machine being millitary grade doesn't float, although I bet if we ASKED NASA we'd know for sure..

-Don

[DonnyEMU]

The pictures you are showing me are frauds. I still own an original A1000 with a 1985 manufacturing date..This isn't millitary spec chips, these pictures you are showing me aren't even  what the real chips look like, they are advertising fakery. I have a stack of old Amiga Worlds with that same ad. As a dealer/repair center from 85-92 I saw a lot of these machines.

For further proof: anyone care to  count the number of pins on Agnes,Denise, and Paula then count the number of pins on those chips in the AD and get back to me. It sure makes a cool looking ad though.. The plate over the chips in this ad is a simple 79 cent glue on from MOS.. I have seen the innards of plenty A1000s to know what I am looking at. Next someone is gonna tell me the 86 pin cpu bus is actually the ZORRO I expansion connector (which it's not).

You guys are scarey this post is starting to sound like something out of the X-Files. Geese guys..
-Don

[DonnyEMU]

Ceramic housing is the way most chips were made at one time, especially the kind you could by outright as chips. I have an 030/882 like that in storage myself.

[DonnyEMU]

I know these aren't the right chips anyway, because I knew of the ad agency that produced them too..

Commodore obviously dummied up some chips to look much better than they were..

After all you want to be buying "gold" right? It really gives you an idea you are buying more than you really are.

-Don

PS

[DonnyEMU]

Okay you forced me into it.. I will get the info from the ad agency and email you with it..

-Don