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Tomswork wrote: 20 Jun 2023 00:37 The lc2 is a good machine to rescue it the caps and battery has not killed it. Good place to get the drive

Tom

The eBay listing shows it booting from floppy and there's no battery. Of course, by powering it up the cap juice has probably squeezed out onto the motherboard, so it'll need recapping quickly. I may have enough spares from the last LCII I recapped last year.

As expected. The AmigaKit order for the "ZuluSCSI" board is still "Pending" after nearly a week and the money has been taken.

Sent an e-mail to AmigaKit and I got this reply:

Hi Stephen

Thanks for the order.

We advertise up to 7-10 business days on our website so we can flash and bench test the ZuluSCSI before sending . Usually it is faster however the we identified an issue with the board so will have some replacement stock on. Monday. You should receive mid week.

Thanks for your patience

Now, is it just me or would you expect that a vendor would test items before putting them into their stock and then ship upon demand?

That's what @exxos does and pretty well every other shop. They don't wait for an order and then test the equipment.

stephen_usher wrote: 22 Jun 2023 10:51 Now, is it just me or would you expect that a vendor would test items before putting them into their stock and then ship upon demand?

That's what @exxos does and pretty well every other shop. They don't wait for an order and then test the equipment.

"Built to order" is when you don't have funds to properly do a batch and testing. But selling stuff which hasn't been built/tested yet generates its own problems.

Indeed like the DFB1X, I invested thousands into that project. I won't put them in stock until I am happy there are no issues.

stephen_usher wrote: 22 Jun 2023 10:51 Sent an e-mail to AmigaKit and I got this reply:

Hi Stephen

Thanks for the order.

We advertise up to 7-10 business days on our website so we can flash and bench test the ZuluSCSI before sending . Usually it is faster however the we identified an issue with the board so will have some replacement stock on. Monday. You should receive mid week.

Thanks for your patience

Now, is it just me or would you expect that a vendor would test items before putting them into their stock and then ship upon demand?

That's what @exxos does and pretty well every other shop. They don't wait for an order and then test the equipment.

Sounds a bit like the way car manufacturers do it with the 'just in time' model to avoid having too much stock on the shelves. Either way that's a long wait when you've paid.

rubber_jonnie wrote: 22 Jun 2023 11:02 Sounds a bit like the way car manufacturers do it with the 'just in time' model to avoid having too much stock on the shelves. Either way that's a long wait when you've paid.

But with those you pay a deposit & then the balance before the item is dispatched/collected...not usually all the cash up front with no firm delivery date.

Was the same when I ordered something from Amiga Kit.

When I did the TF536s I would have some built and tested, then sell them, not take the money, build them, then ship them.

I've got a couple ofST536s to do and will only take the money when I've had a chance to test them.

JezC wrote: 22 Jun 2023 12:25

rubber_jonnie wrote: 22 Jun 2023 11:02 Sounds a bit like the way car manufacturers do it with the 'just in time' model to avoid having too much stock on the shelves. Either way that's a long wait when you've paid.

But with those you pay a deposit & then the balance before the item is dispatched/collected...not usually all the cash up front with no firm delivery date.

That's why I said it was a 'bit' like it :)

Also, what I'm referring to is not buying the car from a salesroom, but the build of the car, as manufacturers expect the components to be delivered to the factory they are needed, not in bulk and left sitting on shelves.

Regardless, I agree, it isn't funny to pay up front and then get the brush off as to when it'll be available.

At least the LCII has arrived. The hard drive sounds like it has bumper sticktion and it definitely needs a recap (from the sounds coming from the speaker) but no cap juice damage or battery damage.

The case is VERY sun tanned. :-)

The floppy seems fine, which is all I care about really at this point.

Floppy swapped, system boots from floppy!

So, only one more thing to test, the internal SCSI connector, before the machine can be classed as fully functional.

The floppy just needs a bit of relubrication on the floppy support frame to ease it up, removing the old sticky stuff.