--- "Charles P. Hobbs" &lt;transit(a)primenet.com&gt; wrote: I ran across one in 1985 at Ohio State. fresh out of the crate. I knew I wanted one. I got my A1000 in 1986 and an 8-bit ISA adapter called The Wedge in 1987 to attach a WD-WX-1 w/ST225 disk - 20Mb for $500; it beat the $1000 that a "real" disk was going for. I later went from using The Wedge to using the "Golden Gate II" card in my A3000 for Ethernet - it's a Zorro<->ISA bridge card to let you use IBM cards with Unix and AmigaDOS. Eventually, I bought the design and made a bunch of them under the name "GG2 Bus+". I went with the A3000/A-Max route - Localtalk for the Amiga and I could hook my computer right up to a Mac-compatible laserprinter. It's still set up at my right elbow, but I don't use it much anymore :-( I've gone is not progress. I just went to our Amiga club's December meeting/party... a dozen people. At one point, AmiCON, the third registered Amiga user group in the U.S., had over 300 members. It was a real world example of how far the Amiga has faded away. If there are any Amiga users out there who are still using their machines for "useful work", I still make the "GG2 Bus+" card. It comes with Ethernet, IDE, serial and printer drivers and is *very* well supported under BSD-flavors of Unix on the Amiga. Write me off the list for details. -ethan ===== Infinet has been sold. The domain is going away in February. Please send all replies to erd(a)iname.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com