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List:       classiccmp
Subject:    Re: Amiga question
From:       Ethan Dicks <ethan_dicks () yahoo ! com>
Date:       2001-07-05 15:34:42
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--- Iggy Drougge <optimus@canit.se> wrote:
> Jeff Hellige skrev:
> 
> >>I hope you've managed to scrounge enough ZIPs to accomodate the OS and
> >>applications.
> 
> >   It supposedly has 14meg total, which was enough to do most
> >anything I wanted to before. 
> 
> Well, you can't go much further than that on the mobo IIRC.

A little more - 2Mb CHIP and 16Mb FAST - 18Mb total, just like an A4000.

> You mention the points which IMO makes the A3000 prettier. The A4000, for all
> its shortcomings, is somewhat easier to handle, though.

I have both an A3000 and an A4000 (each one was in turn my primary Amiga
for years).  I personally like the A3000 more, but the internal CD-ROM bay
and the AGA chipset is mighty attractive (but so is SCSI-on-the-motherboard).

> Similarly, the RAM may be hideously slow, but at least it uses SIMMs. Getting
> hold of ZIPs is a bloody pain in the neck (are there any list members out
> there who happen to have any to spare? =).

I might have a few individual ones (like 6, not enough for a bank), but I
think they are Fast Page, not Static Column.

> The A1200 is common, but it is essentially a closed architecture. Unless
> you're adventurous and put it in a tower with a slot card and all that, but
> it
> still turns out as a mediocre imitation of a real big-box machine. Still,
> given a PCI backplane, it turns out a rather cheap solution compared to a
> similarly equipped Zorro Amiga.

I fell off the bandwagon by the time A1200 towers became common.  Got a $10
A1200 motherboard that I started to repair (broken pins on an SMT DRAM,
solder on *all* the I/O connector pins from a hack job, etc.), but that is
such a low priority that I'll probably find a cheap/free A1200 before I
get to it.

I bought OS3.9 but have yet to load it.  :-(

-ethan


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