31 Dec
2001
31 Dec
'01
12:48 p.m.
At 07:59 PM 31/12/2001 -0600, Gary Hildebrand wrote:
There were several variations, starting with the A1060
Sidecar, which
was nothing more than a PC clone in a nice box, with a shared memory
address for graphics (mono or CGA color), and sharing the serial and
parallel ports.
Sad thing about these is that they sold for as much as a PC clone, and
had no better features than the IBM's of their day.
The main reason for me buying a Sidecar was that it was the cheapest (by a
long way) of
adding a hard drive to my Amiga and I got an IBM PC for free....
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