[Coco] Re: The evolution of the Coco..

[David Hazelton]

John E. Malmberg wrote:

> Nickolas Marentes wrote:
> 
>>
>>>> STEVE BJORK
>>>> 2) Only one model of motherboard could be use.  I'm assuming your 
>>>> are not
>>>> going to rewrite the BIOS for every motherboard Chip Set out there.  
>>>> What
>>>> happen when the version 2 of the motherboard comes or they some making
>>>> it?  The life span of a motherboard is less than a year these days.
>>
>>  
>> One could buy 100 mainboards and effectively "lock" the platform. I doubt
>> you'd ever be able to sell more than this.
> 
> 
> Having watched one support organization try this in order to simplify 
> spares maintenance, I would not count on that one working.
> 
> In a batch of allegedly 500 identical motherboards there were several 
> manufacturing changes that were incompatible at many levels.
> 
> It took two months of pushing at high levels to get one of the suppliers 
> to the motherboard to admit to changing out the video chip to a new 
> generation with out notifying the motherboard manufacturer.
> 

I had a similar experience, Seagate changed an IDE controller board on 
their laptop drive. We were having problems on have of the Laptops we 
were building, no rhyme or reason.  Took weeks just to figure it was the 
drive.  Seagate refused to acknowledge the change until we showed them 
the easily spottable changes on the IDE controller part of the drive.
> 
> -John
> wb8tyw(at)qsl.net
> Personal Opinion Only
> 
> 

~David Hazelton