Re: "Mystery" 1571.

From: William Levak (wlevak_at_cyberspace.org)
Date: 2000-08-07 03:44:27

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.

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