kellym@shark.UUCP (07/03/86)
> From orca!tektronix!hplabs!oliveb!3comvax!mykes Thu Jul 3 10:32:51 PDT 1986 > > I just got my 1MB board from CardCo, and it looks wonderful!... > ... > ...The only negatives I have seen so far have nothing > to do with the CardCo board. Autoconfig requires 80K of ram for I don't > know what (maybe someone who knows can fill us in). The extra 80K of RAM is used to hold the "expansion.lib" library (which contains the auto-config routines). This RAM _appears_ to be in use, but like any library, is *removed* once a program asks for more memory than would be available otherwise. > > Another bit of news about CardCo... They went out of business a week or two > ago. When I called to order the ram board, the phone was answered by > Computers Anonymous, a retail computer store. But not to fret, apparently > Computers Anonymous is indeed a "phoenix" (rises from the ashes) company > from CardCo, and there will be no shortage of CardCo boards, probably ever. > CardCo has a fine reputation with its C64 product line, and their first > Amiga product looks wonderful. Actually, Computers Anonymous is a distributor of Amiga products with close ties to CardCo. The founders of CardCo have formed a new company dedicated exclusively to the development of quality Amiga products. This company is called "C Ltd". Since CardCo only sold their products through distributorships, it is quite likely that the phone number that appeared in the aMEGA ad was for Computers Anonymous. In case anyone is interested, CardCo did not actually "go out of buisiness" in the chapter 11 sense, but more or less made a conscious decision to move away from the less profitable C-64 market and re-organize their resources to better serve the needs of the fast-moving Amiga market. In the works are an expansion box (rests on top of the Amiga, low profile, 6 slot, low cost), one/two-meg plug-in memory card, multi-function card (clock, extra serial port(s), modem?), DMA (fast) Hard Disk, etc... "I have seen the future..." Kelly McArthur tektronix!shark!kellym