Blue CPU slot?

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

What do you guys make of this?  Auction says it is a "very rare" (haha) blue 6.2B motherboard.  Think it's C= original or did someone just replace it with whatever they had on hand, due to battery damage or somesuch?

[Matt_H]

Well, technically, it is rare. But it doesn't add any value to the machine!

I suspect it's the result of a repair. There doesn't seem to be any battery damage, so maybe it was something else earlier in the machine's life.

Then again, C= always wanted to save every penny imaginable in component costs. Maybe blue slots were $0.00002 cheaper for this particular production run

[magnetic]

Im sure somebody repaired that and used a blue socket highly doubt thats from CBM

[Pat the Cat]

Im sure somebody repaired that and used a blue socket highly doubt thats from CBM

 +1.
 
 Can't recall seeing a blue socket back in the 90s. Not on an Amiga. Never. I think it's a later innovation, when dyes were added to basic polyester mixes rather than carbon black.
 
 If it is genuine it's an Escom product? But Escom didn't sell the A2000... nah, can't be. Unless it was recycyled old CBM stock that they put a novel connector on. Very unlikely.

[motrucker]

I've been working with Amigas since they were leased, and never have seen this. My vote's for a repair.

[Rob]

A blue CPU slot means it's military spec.

[Jeff]

I have an old rev A3000 motherboard with blue zip ram sockets. I am sure they are from a repair attempt too?

[klx300r]

A blue CPU slot means it's military spec.

& sadly Doomy approved:laughing:

[Pat the Cat]

A blue CPU slot means it's military spec.

If you are correct, then it's definitely not original, as Milspec 2000 dates from... 16 JAN 1989.

(no, you can't google it, but you can check the release date).

http://everyspec.com/MIL-STD/MIL-STD-2000-2999/MIL-STD-2000_10934/

On the other hand, having a hotter than normal CPU would require a connector capable of withstanding 125C without deforming... nylon or better rather than polyester or ABS.

If you can find some evidence to back up your claim Rob, would love to know how you know... bearing in mind that blue connectors are definitely NOT military spec now, so could be used currently to defectively repair old military equipment if you are correct. Only they would deform at 125C, so quite frankly I think you are not correct at all.

Misinformed rather than deliberately deceiving, there is an old saying about the military "Bull$hit baffles brains", ie the operators get taught a lot of things that just are not accurate.
 
 So long as the equipment is accurate and goes BANG when you pull the trigger, it doesn't matter.

[Matt_H]

@ Pat

"Mil-spec" is a running joke we have here about an infamous user known as "Doomy" (and multiple other aliases) who insisted that the A2000 was the best Amiga because it was mil-spec (i.e., used ceramic chip casings) and that all other Amigas were toys and trash. In short, he was a complete nutter.

[Pat the Cat]

Well... technically, you can run things hotter if they're all built to the right standard.

That's never meant they could go any FASTER though. Just that they will keep working in an emergency.

So, if Doomy lived in a building that often caught fire, it would make sense. To him, anyway. Overclocking types tend to be obsessive.

"Nutter" is a relative term. I mean, most people here are nutty about Amigas.

Question of keeping a perspective and not getting too obsessive, I guess.

[Rob]

If you are correct, then it's definitely not original, as Milspec 2000 dates from... 16 JAN 1989.
 

It's an in joke.

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

It's an in joke.

#Facepalm

[LoadWB]

"Nutter" is a relative term. I mean, most people here are nutty about Amigas.

Question of keeping a perspective and not getting too obsessive, I guess.

Ummmm, sure, but you're applying rational reasoning to an irrational situation.  How about, then, he's off his phuqn rocker??  I suppose this is one of those "had-to-be-there" things.

[klx300r]

Ummmm, sure, but you're applying rational reasoning to an irrational situation.  How about, then, he's off his phuqn rocker??  .

too kind, 'certifiably cookoo', would be more appropriate & still to kind ;-)