5 Jul
2001
5 Jul
'01
3:34 a.m.
--- Iggy Drougge <optimus(a)canit.se> wrote:
Jeff Hellige skrev:
A little more - 2Mb CHIP and 16Mb FAST - 18Mb total, just like an A4000.
>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. 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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