Discontinued & out of stock items 2018 round up
Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2018 1:58 pm
Always a little sad to see the end of items, but sometimes it is just unavoidable. So I'm discontinuing the below items...
FPU OVERCLOCK PCB 50MHz https://www.exxosforum.co.uk/atari/store2/#0074
These have been out of stock for a really long time. They have never been huge sellers so there is no use in investing in them again. These are officially discontinued.
Atari Falcon 030 68882 FPU 40mhz
Been out of stock for a while.. The problem with these is if the clock pin as a bad contact particular with the above modification PCB, it tends to kill the FPU some don't work from new, and the fact some of them get killed during testing, and no longer testing these for 64Mhz speeds. I will only test if they are working or not from my store. In theory they should all overclock, but I am testing this any longer.
STF/E PSU.
https://www.exxosforum.co.uk/atari/store2/#0025
As mentioned while ago, all these power supplies came from my own stash of computers. Of course over the years the power supplies have slowly sold, and with the prices of machines always on the increase, it is not sustainable to buy the machines and rob them parts any longer.
As such I have no source these power supplies any more, and so I have none to upgrade the sale from my store. Also as I have done so many of these, I really don't want to keep doing these any longer anyway.
There maybe the odd one or two which may appear for sale in the future, but no guarantees. Basically these are considered a discontinued item now.
MC68060 REV 6 CPU
As mentioned before elsewhere, these are the last ones in stock I will not be stocking them again.
https://www.exxosforum.co.uk/atari/store2/#0058
STFM 4MB SIMM ADAPTER KIT
https://www.exxosforum.co.uk/atari/store2/#0020 While these are officially discontinued now, I do hope point next year to do a similar board but assembled and not using a simm, but the smaller SMT DRAM which my 4 MB MMU KIT uses. Though this project is not high up on my to do list and of course the 4MB MMU KIT I have plenty in stock.
TOS104 6 CHIP TO 2 CHIP UNIVERSAL KIT
https://www.exxosforum.co.uk/atari/store2/#0085 These are actually not really a good kit to make and test. As I started selling 6 CHIP TOS with all languages is far easier from my perspective than assembling and testing the universal kit. Also this kit was only available in English. Time and costs involved in this kit and its usefulness making not worth continuing with. So this kit now is this discontinued.
STE DUAL TOS 1.62/2.06 KIT (BLUE PCB)
https://www.exxosforum.co.uk/atari/store2/#0054 This particular kit will not be produced once stocks are exhausted. I currently sell a version ( HERE ) Where the ROMs can be purchased separately. Ultimately the "red edition" dualtos boards with UBE switch will become the standard kit for this. These kits will likely be assembled with integrated ROM (not swappable).
Obviously long-term there is no use in having 3 kits for basically the same thing. So ultimately the "BLUE" boards will only be available in kit form while stocks last. All future boards will be be sold assembled.
LONG BUTTON SINGLE SIDED 360K FLOPPY DRIVE
https://www.exxosforum.co.uk/atari/store2/#0078
ORIGINAL 720K FLOPPY DRIVE SHORT BUTTON
https://www.exxosforum.co.uk/atari/store2/#0055
Both original drives I am classing as discontinued. Basically the same problem as the original power supplies. Just about all my machines no longer have power supplies or floppy drives, so I simply have no more for sale and with the prices of buying machines now on the increase is not sustainable to obtain these any more. The problem with floppy drives as well, is that even when I do obtain a lot of machines, easily half the drives are no longer functional and not repairable. But with the costs of machines being high and hard to obtain, I just have no source for these any longer so I am classing them as discontinued.
Ultimately each of these items will be removed from the store list in due time. The stock code numbers will be re-used for future items.. So the links above will become invalid for those items in the future. Should I have any items like floppy drives or power supplies sale in the future, I will likely just list them in the for sale section here on the forum rather than keeping a item listed as out of stock in my store for endless months.
There's also a similar issue with the original custom Atari chips, DMA, GLUE,MMU, SHIFTER etc that these came from my stash of spare machines so supply is getting rather limited lately. The price will likely start going up on these chips as I have no source for these either any more. I will pretty much have to butcher working motherboards to obtain these chips.
The blitter chip I keep looking for a supplier, but these are pretty impossible to find these days. Places that do actually list the chips, do not actually sell them as there is no stock anywhere any more.
FPU OVERCLOCK PCB 50MHz https://www.exxosforum.co.uk/atari/store2/#0074
These have been out of stock for a really long time. They have never been huge sellers so there is no use in investing in them again. These are officially discontinued.
Atari Falcon 030 68882 FPU 40mhz
Been out of stock for a while.. The problem with these is if the clock pin as a bad contact particular with the above modification PCB, it tends to kill the FPU some don't work from new, and the fact some of them get killed during testing, and no longer testing these for 64Mhz speeds. I will only test if they are working or not from my store. In theory they should all overclock, but I am testing this any longer.
STF/E PSU.
https://www.exxosforum.co.uk/atari/store2/#0025
As mentioned while ago, all these power supplies came from my own stash of computers. Of course over the years the power supplies have slowly sold, and with the prices of machines always on the increase, it is not sustainable to buy the machines and rob them parts any longer.
As such I have no source these power supplies any more, and so I have none to upgrade the sale from my store. Also as I have done so many of these, I really don't want to keep doing these any longer anyway.
There maybe the odd one or two which may appear for sale in the future, but no guarantees. Basically these are considered a discontinued item now.
MC68060 REV 6 CPU
As mentioned before elsewhere, these are the last ones in stock I will not be stocking them again.
https://www.exxosforum.co.uk/atari/store2/#0058
STFM 4MB SIMM ADAPTER KIT
https://www.exxosforum.co.uk/atari/store2/#0020 While these are officially discontinued now, I do hope point next year to do a similar board but assembled and not using a simm, but the smaller SMT DRAM which my 4 MB MMU KIT uses. Though this project is not high up on my to do list and of course the 4MB MMU KIT I have plenty in stock.
TOS104 6 CHIP TO 2 CHIP UNIVERSAL KIT
https://www.exxosforum.co.uk/atari/store2/#0085 These are actually not really a good kit to make and test. As I started selling 6 CHIP TOS with all languages is far easier from my perspective than assembling and testing the universal kit. Also this kit was only available in English. Time and costs involved in this kit and its usefulness making not worth continuing with. So this kit now is this discontinued.
STE DUAL TOS 1.62/2.06 KIT (BLUE PCB)
https://www.exxosforum.co.uk/atari/store2/#0054 This particular kit will not be produced once stocks are exhausted. I currently sell a version ( HERE ) Where the ROMs can be purchased separately. Ultimately the "red edition" dualtos boards with UBE switch will become the standard kit for this. These kits will likely be assembled with integrated ROM (not swappable).
Obviously long-term there is no use in having 3 kits for basically the same thing. So ultimately the "BLUE" boards will only be available in kit form while stocks last. All future boards will be be sold assembled.
LONG BUTTON SINGLE SIDED 360K FLOPPY DRIVE
https://www.exxosforum.co.uk/atari/store2/#0078
ORIGINAL 720K FLOPPY DRIVE SHORT BUTTON
https://www.exxosforum.co.uk/atari/store2/#0055
Both original drives I am classing as discontinued. Basically the same problem as the original power supplies. Just about all my machines no longer have power supplies or floppy drives, so I simply have no more for sale and with the prices of buying machines now on the increase is not sustainable to obtain these any more. The problem with floppy drives as well, is that even when I do obtain a lot of machines, easily half the drives are no longer functional and not repairable. But with the costs of machines being high and hard to obtain, I just have no source for these any longer so I am classing them as discontinued.
Ultimately each of these items will be removed from the store list in due time. The stock code numbers will be re-used for future items.. So the links above will become invalid for those items in the future. Should I have any items like floppy drives or power supplies sale in the future, I will likely just list them in the for sale section here on the forum rather than keeping a item listed as out of stock in my store for endless months.
There's also a similar issue with the original custom Atari chips, DMA, GLUE,MMU, SHIFTER etc that these came from my stash of spare machines so supply is getting rather limited lately. The price will likely start going up on these chips as I have no source for these either any more. I will pretty much have to butcher working motherboards to obtain these chips.
The blitter chip I keep looking for a supplier, but these are pretty impossible to find these days. Places that do actually list the chips, do not actually sell them as there is no stock anywhere any more.