Subject: Re: Revision K strongarms ...
To: William Gallafent <William.Gallafent@comlab.ox.ac.uk>
From: Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>
List: port-arm32
Date: 04/30/1998 10:13:21
>bit (a lot, preferably). After all, he is acting for a company that
>shipped cards carrying duff processors.
To be fair to Acorn, the bug probably wasn't known at the time they made =
those
cards. I can understand them being a bit reluctant to pick up the bill f=
or =
Digital having made a mistake with the boards.
Incidentally, =A3100+VAT is probably about the same as it would cost you =
to get =
the board you have upgraded. SA110s cost about =A340-=A350 in small quan=
tities =
and you might well be able to find somebody with SMT rework ability who'd=
=
change the chip for =A350 or less. If all of you who suffer from the bug=
were =
to club together and do this then it would probably be cheaper still.
p.