6 Dec
2000
6 Dec
'00
5:48 p.m.
On Dec 6, 22:21, Iggy Drougge wrote:
I'm getting increasingly interested in Acorn's
Archimedes machines
[...]
I'd also appreciate some pointers to other sources
for Acorn RISC
machines
other than the scarce auctions on eBay, as well as
good starting systems
in an
area with low add-ons availability.
Look for A410, A420, A440, R140 (relatively rare), A540, or R260 because
these are easy to expand and cheap. A 310 is a similar machine, but not
designed for more than 1MB RAM (though you sometimes see them with 3rd
party add-on RAM). The A5000 and 7000 are better but more expensive/less
cheap. The A3xxx series are not designed to be expandable, and the A4000
is basically just an A3000 in a different box. comp.sys.acorn.hardware is
a good newsgroup to watch.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York