29 Jun
2011
29 Jun
'11
8:43 a.m.
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 11:17, Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
Those are neat. ?It's good to see some new
expansion options. ?My
A1000 is loaded with tons of 41256 chips, bought back when they cost
between $3.50 and $17.50 *each*, but trying to find those old
expansion boards is harder than finding an A1000 in the first place.
Heh, did you do the "piggybacking" too? :-) I recently took photos of
my ugly hack to expand the 1000 with 512k "slow" ram:
http://signalsprocessed.blogspot.com/2011/06/ancient-history-my-first-amiga…
This was done in the early 90s, forgive my horrible kluging. I wish I
could find the instructions that I built this hack from - a quick
search of aminet and the Fish index didn't show anything, I must have
gotten the instructions of a BBS at some point.
The IDE and CF interfaces are a really nice touch. ?I
think most
A2000s ended up with hard disks (even if early adopters bought them
without), but lots of A1000s and A500s were floppy-only.
I just recently found AmiBay and am amazed at the stuff people are
building. I'm counting my pennies, one of those IDE/Ram interfaces
would definitely be a nice thing...
Joe.
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Joachim Thiemann :: http://www.tsp.ece.mcgill.ca/~jthiem