On Sun, 6 Aug 2000, Richard Atkinson wrote: > On Sun, 6 Aug 2000, Martijn van Buul wrote: > > > Somehow, I don't understand how a "1570" board ends up with a new ROM.. > > Simple. The factory gets in the new 1571 cases, mechanisms, power supplies > or whatever it was that stopped them producing 1571s in the first place, > and builds the first few 1571s with remaining 1570 stock. Or they run out > of critical 1571 parts at some point in the future and instead of waiting > around losing money they use that pile of 1570 boards lying in the corner > that no-one's touched since the 1571 started production. And don't forget that Commodore sold it's prototypes and engineering samples in their periodic stock reduction sales. - This message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing list. To unsubscribe: echo unsubscribe | mail cbm-hackers-request@dot.tcm.hut.fi.
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