Posted By
billdeg
on 2003-10-17
|  wanted: 264 series MOS 8501/7501 chip
Is this a chip you can copy? I believe no, but I would like to confirm. Does anyone have a source to purchase these? If so can you send to billdeg@aol.com? The cheapest I could find was http://www.jspusa.com, but they will only sell one per month per customer, for $50 US.
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Posted By
JamesC
on 2003-10-17
| Re: wanted: 264 series MOS 8501/7501 chip
The 7501/8501 is a processor, like the Pentuiim 4 or AMD Athalon in your computer. As such it could be copied but the machinery required to do so would be a LOT more expensive than $50. AMD themselves are having a hard time making a profit and they're selling millions of their own processors each month. 
I could not find the 8501 (or the 7501) on JSP's website. Was this in their .pdf online catalog, or did you email them for a price quote and availability? If you emailed them please forward the email to me at james (at) cbm264 (dot) com; I'm interested in what they said. Maybe I can set up a wholesale account with them through my employer to buy these cheaper for everyone.
JSP did have reasonable prices on original CBM chips and Motorola processors.... so you AMIGA people (hey LANDO and PETER) might wish to check out that site; if you want spare chips let me know.
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Posted By
JamesC
on 2003-10-17
| Re: wanted: 264 series MOS 8501/7501 chip
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Posted By
The +4 King
on 2003-10-19
 | Re: wanted: 264 series MOS 8501/7501 chip
Hey James
Would love an 060 for my A4000
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Posted By
JamesC
on 2003-10-19
| Re: wanted: 264 series MOS 8501/7501 chip
Can do, Peter...... and I have an .mp3 to send to you also... is there a limit on how large your file attachments can be?
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Posted By
JamesC
on 2003-10-19
| Re: wanted: 264 series MOS 8501/7501 chip
Peter I should have checked their website before I said 'ok", all they show there is 8 and 10 MHz. I will have to llok around to find a 60 MHz chip.
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Posted By
MIK
on 2003-10-19
 | Re: wanted: 264 series MOS 8501/7501 chip
I think Commodore did almost everything right with the Amiga. By the time they created the A1200 (was thought by some as wasted) the amount of abuse and upgardes you can do to it was beyond the thinking of Commodore and mines still running today 
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Posted By
Bionic
on 2003-10-19
| Re: wanted: 264 series MOS 8501/7501 chip
Actually the AGA chipset design is simply *lame*. They could have done much better with the available technology, money and manpower. To me it looks just like a mindless expansion of the ECS chipset without even actually thinking about what the market wants or a competitive product would require.
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Posted By
Anoyd
on 2003-10-19
| Re: wanted: 264 series MOS 8501/7501 chip
I dunno, Commodore must have got something right cos my A1200 is still running too, albeit in a slightly modified form. The AGA chipset was ace at what it did, the games developed for it kinda show that in terms of 2D the chipset was immense. Weren't there rumours of another chipset being in development? A nice 3D one that could have saved Commodore if they had dropped the flipping PC wing of the business?
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