X-Pert: "50 MHz 68040 card available"

[Ethan Solomita]

In article <VINSCI.91Jun18035202 at nic.nic.funet.fi> vinsci at nic.funet.fi (Leonard Norrgard) writes:
>In article <22477 at cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh at cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
>   In article <VINSCI.91Jun11130347 at nic.nic.funet.fi> vinsci at nic.funet.fi (Leonard Norrgard) writes:
>   >I just got off the phone with X-Pert Computer Services in Germany, and
>   >to my surprise they said they have a 50 MHz 68040 card available now.
>
>   They're lying to you.
>
>That was what I thought. So I asked him two more times right then.
>I also said that I was going to write to the net about and he
>still persisted. Maybe they'll learn as they lose customer confidence?
>  On the other hand, these are the same folks who sold 50MHz GVP '030
>accelerators before GVP did... Accelerating a board is of course a
>little bit different from accelerating a chip. :-)
>
	I still don't understand: isn't it POSSIBLE that they are
simply replacing the crystal and using a heat sink? The success
rate could be >0.
	-- Ethan

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