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  • Order of the Butterfly
    Order of the Butterfly
    XzIt
    Posts: 250 from 2005/1/19
    From: Norway
    Soo seems my Pegasos 2 finally kicked the bucket and died on me, same week MZ was down. ;(

    Do anyone know how to contact Bplan?
    Would it be possible to mail the board to them ? in hopes of getting it fixed ?
    Or dont they do that anymore ?

    Any replys would be nice, if anyone has done this before.....

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  • »02.01.13 - 16:50
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  • Acolyte of the Butterfly
    Acolyte of the Butterfly
    Ingo
    Posts: 103 from 2004/3/19
    From: #AmigaZeux
    Been there, done that. But i think it was 2004 or so :-?

    You'll find bplan over here http://www.bplan-gmbh.de/bplan_en.html

    Thomas Knäbel is really a nice and helpful guy, hope he is still there.
  • »02.01.13 - 16:59
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  • Yokemate of Keyboards
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    Andreas_Wolf
    Posts: 12403 from 2003/5/22
    From: Germany
    > Do anyone know how to contact Bplan? Would it be possible to mail the board
    > to them ? in hopes of getting it fixed ? Or dont they do that anymore ?

    This might be helpful:

    https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?topic_id=8721&forum=11&start=6
  • »02.01.13 - 17:07
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  • Order of the Butterfly
    Order of the Butterfly
    XzIt
    Posts: 250 from 2005/1/19
    From: Norway
    thx for the quick replys, sendt a mail and just have to wait and see.

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  • »02.01.13 - 17:54
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
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    CountRaven
    Posts: 566 from 2007/12/10
    From: Greece
    Good luck I wish, I have sent my dead motherboard and CPU module to aknabe, he is very helpfull and polite, I still have not heard any updates from him about possible fix but I know he is bussy, hopefully he would have my lovely peg2 fixed.
  • »03.01.13 - 01:46
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  • Order of the Butterfly
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    XzIt
    Posts: 250 from 2005/1/19
    From: Norway
    Soo i got my answer and he wants me to check the output of the pegasos 2 serial port.

    Well ;P he says quote: "connect a second machine to the serial port. Please use a null modem connection, setting 115200 8N1."
    As in the old amiga serial null modem cabel will work ?
    I will need a pc that has a serial to connect too also im quessing.
    But no mention of what software to use while trying that.

    Any replys would be nice ;P

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  • »03.01.13 - 15:55
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  • Butterfly
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    Dragster
    Posts: 99 from 2005/11/6
    From: Mexico City, M...
    Yeah, a null modem cable should do on any classic to check that...you can use ncomm or term.. ncomm is available on aminet.. not sure about Term though.

    Good luck,

    Dragster
  • »03.01.13 - 16:05
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  • Jim
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    Jim
    Posts: 4977 from 2009/1/28
    From: Delaware, USA
    We do not bplan.
    I would make fair more sense to contact Paul Gentle at Varisys.
    "Never attribute to malice what can more readily explained by incompetence"
  • »04.01.13 - 17:34
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  • Yokemate of Keyboards
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    Andreas_Wolf
    Posts: 12403 from 2003/5/22
    From: Germany
    > We do not bplan. I would make fair more sense to contact Paul Gentle at Varisys.

    I disagree. In my humble opinion, having the board repaired by the board's developer makes the most sense. Besides, I doubt that Varisys offers such smallest-scale repair service for 3rd party hardware. At least their homepage doesn't mention anything about repair service.
  • »04.01.13 - 19:42
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  • Yokemate of Keyboards
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    Zylesea
    Posts: 2065 from 2003/6/4
    Jim,
    Quote:

    I would make fair more sense to contact Paul Gentle at Varisys.


    If there are experts about the Pegasos out there, it's the guys from bplan who actually designed and build that computer. Their service is said to be pretty good.
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    http://via.bckrs.de

    Whenever you're sad just remember the world is 4.543 billion years old and you somehow managed to exist at the same time as David Bowie.
    ...and Matthias , my friend - RIP
  • »04.01.13 - 19:59
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  • Jim
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    Jim
    Posts: 4977 from 2009/1/28
    From: Delaware, USA
    Do you really think its worth paying to fix a computer that is that much slower then a Power mac (unless you want to run, ugh, OS4)?

    Personally, I'll wait till A-eon comes up with its next machine, and in the meanwhile I'll use my Macs.

    The Pegasos is a dated platform.
    "Never attribute to malice what can more readily explained by incompetence"
  • »05.01.13 - 11:43
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  • MorphOS Developer
    itix
    Posts: 1520 from 2003/2/24
    From: Finland
    @Jim

    It is dated but if I had broken Peg2 then I would try to get it fixed and sell it. If you are lucky you can get your repair bill paid and afford fast PowerMac + MorphOS license.
    1 + 1 = 3 with very large values of 1
  • »05.01.13 - 13:03
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    CountRaven
    Posts: 566 from 2007/12/10
    From: Greece
    Quote:

    The Pegasos is a dated platform.


    As long as MorphOS still runs on it, Pegasos platform is NOT dead. And there are people -including me- who have paid good money for their Pegasos system back on the days when MorphOS was running only on Pegasos systems. Well those people do not want to see their machines broken and useless.

    [ Edited by CountRaven 05.01.2013 - 16:54 ]
  • »05.01.13 - 14:02
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