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From: darrell@comspec.uucp (Darrell Grainger)
Subject: Re: A3000 Can't take the heat
Organization: Comspec Communications Inc  Toronto Ontario
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 91 17:28:53 GMT
Message-ID: <1991Jun5.172853.7309@comspec.uucp>
References: <kcDHcjK00WAvA3I6gO@andrew.cmu.edu> <21985@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1991Jun3.140816.10385@metapro.DIALix.oz.au>
Sender: darrell@comspec (Darrell Grainger)

In article <1991Jun3.140816.10385@metapro.DIALix.oz.au> bernie@metapro.DIALix.oz.au (Bernd Felsche) writes:
>In <21985@cbmvax.commodore.com>
>   daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
>
>>I have never run into the problem myself (and C= offices get well beyond 80F
>>in the summer, thanks to a chaotic cooling system).  If you added the RAM
>>chips, make sure that they're 80ns parts.  Slower parts might work, most of
>>the time, and fail when things get hot (which makes silicon slower).  Make 
>>sure the chips are fully socketed; I had an A1000 hacked up with 512K of 
>>piggyback RAM that worked for nearly a year, but got flakey one hot August
>>day.  Apparently, I had missed soldering one pin, which made good contact 
>
>:-) Would _you_ buy a machine designed by this man? :-)

 I think the problem here wouldn't be a design fault but more a production
fault. Maybe this is way the Amiga is not manufactured in the US. :-)

>>until that hot day.  Also, make absolutely sure your A3000 gets adequate 
>>ventilation.  I have heard stories for years of people with systems that get 
>>flakey in the summertime, only to find out that they had them in stereo racks 
>>or other nearly airless places.  
>-- 
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