Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uunet!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!primerd!ENI!I5000!GARYM
From: GARYM@I5000.Prime.COM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Basic A500 Expansion Questions.
Message-ID: <419500011@I5000.Prime.COM>
Date: 22 Nov 89 10:48:00 GMT
Lines: 38
Nf-ID: #N:I5000:419500011:000:1841
Nf-From: I5000.Prime.COM!GARYM    Nov 22 10:48:00 1989


Hello,

    I just recently purchased a A500 and Im presently thinking
of (after the holiday's of course) purchasing a HD and more memory.
Since Im fairly new to the Amiga world and my experience with hardware
is rather limited I would like to know the following:

    1.)  What is the largest and most inexpensive internal expansion
         board I can get and what would be the approximate cost. Now
         I know theres plenty of magazines that will give me this info.
         But what I really want to know is are these board just "pop-em
         in and go..." or do they require some modification to the
         A500 itself.

    2.)  As far as HD's goes, Im lost. There are so many brands that it's
         almost confusing to even start looking for one. My basic needs
         are as follows. Probably 40-60MB of space, external (of course)
         and seperate power supply. Now the next question would be
         rather geered toward expansion again. Since most drives
         (only SCSI?) can themselves be expanded (more memory, floppy etc.)
         what kind of other things do I need. Would one SCSI contoller
         do this or can I get away without SCSI and use a generic HD
         controller (and would that allow me to expand memory).

Maybe some expanded A500 owners can give me some advice and direction.

Thanks,
Gary



+---------------------+ +-----------------------------------------------------+
|Gary MacDougall      | | The opinions expressed here are in no way connected |
|Prime Computer Inc.  | | with my employer, unless of course the're good      |
|Oracle Development   | | enough get me a healthy raise...                    |
|Framingham, Ma 01701 | |                                                     |
+---------------------+ +-----------------------------------------------------+