11 Jun
2004
11 Jun
'04
2:11 p.m.
Ethan Dicks <dickset(a)amanda.spole.gov> wrote:
The reason the A1000 needs a Kickstart disk is because
the ROMs weren't
ready in 1985. By the time the A500 and A2000 came out a couple of years
later, C= _tried_ to get A1000 owners to upgrade to A2000s with two or
three sets of large incentives, but lots of people wouldn't switch.
That would be me. I tried to find the incentive to upgrade from an
A1000 to an A2000, but as I'd already put a Starboard with 2MB and
SCSI on the thing and couldn't use it on the A2000 (or the A500 with
its flipped-twice SOTS connector) it really didn't look like a good
deal: the stock A2000 wasn't that much more oomphy than the A1000
except that it had a reasonable expansion bus inside the box and
provision for upgrading the processor.
Later (1991 or so) there was the A3000 upgrade, where you could get a
discount of a few hundred bucks for your A1000 serial number. That
almost looked like a good deal. Except that at HT Electronics, the
staff was more interested in selling me an A1000 serial number than in
selling me the A3000 upgrade -- the guy lost interest and wandered off
when I said that I had an A1000 serial number by way of owning an
A1000. That was what really told me, "You fool! The Amiga is DEAD!"
-Frank McConnell