erd@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (Ethan R Dicks) (07/19/90)
Last night, several members of AmiCon, a user group in Columbus, installed Rejuvinators in our A1000. Since Greg Tibbs lives rather close, he was on hand to direct/supervise/assist installation and debugging. It did take a while, but most of us had add-on peripherals which we tested one by one, checking the operation, powering off, and adding another one until they were all installed and working. To allay any fears about expansion peripherals... I have an A1000, with a 1.5Mb Spirit InBoard, a Microbotics StarBoard (populated to 1Mb), a WEDGE 1000 with two 20Mb disks, and a homebrew A1020 5.25" disk drive. The Rejuvinator works fine. I now have a machine with 1 Mb CHIP RAM, 3 Mb FAST RAM (in 3 separate, non-mergable chunks), and 40 Mb of disk. I was also able to buy an ECS Denise. Expert Systems is permitted by Commodore to sell Denise chips to registered Rejuvinator owners (probably one to a customer). Also included with the Rejuvinator is a coupon for a MicroWay FlickerFixer for $300 (first 100 orders received.) No additional wires are required to use it; it just plugs into the top of the Rejuvinator. The hardest part about installing the Rejuvinator is removing the motherboard from the case (and remembering where all those damn screws go ;-) The installation itself (once the motherboard was ready) is no harder than replacing the daughter card. I love mine. It keeps my 4 year old A1000 at least as current as a Rev 6 A500. It also keeps me from having to buy an A2000 to run OS2.0, whenever it comes out. -ethan -- Ethan R. Dicks | ###### This signifies that the poster is a member in Software Results Corp| ## good sitting of Inertia House: Bodies at rest. 940 Freeway Drive N. | ## Columbus OH 43229 | ###### "You get it, you're closer."