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From: mclek@dcatla.UUCP (Larry E. Kollar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Wish I had an Amiga 1500
Message-ID: <20892@dcatla.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jul 89 13:11:25 GMT
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Reply-To: mclek@sunb.UUCP (Larry E. Kollar)
Organization: DCA Inc., Alpharetta, GA
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I'm surprised a third party hasn't jumped in to fill this particular gap.
I haven't done any measuring (yet), but I *think* an A500 motherboard would
fit in a "tower" box.  Add a beefier power supply, a muffin fan, a few
cables, and maybe plug in a pair of expansion slots at the bottom.  All this
is off the shelf, and might cost as little as $500-600 (motherboard & disk
drive not included, of course) if you do it yourself and shop smart.  A
company buying in quantity would pay less, & have some markup.

This would give us a little more expansion room on our 500s (a LUCAS would
be easier to plug in this setup, for example) and still cost less than a 2000
all told.  With the interest shown in an intermediate model, I think it
would fly (I'd do it myself, if I could get the startup capital).
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Larry Kollar	...!gatech!dcatla!mclek
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