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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Does the A2500/30 have an A2090a or an A2091?
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Date: 28 Nov 89 04:36:42 GMT
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In article <3264@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> cdouty@jarthur.UUCP (Christopher Douty) writes:
>In article <3403@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett) writes:
>>	The Subject line says it all.  Will the Amiga 2500/30 be shipped
>>with the old A2090a hard disk controller, or with th enew A2091?
>
>From what I gleaned from COMDEX both A2500 models will ship with the new A2091
>and a 19ms 40 meg SCSI drive.  I suspect that Commodore will discontinue the
>A2091a.  I think that would be a good move since the A2090 series has some
 ^^^^^^
>definite problems. (say anyone buy mine so I can get a 2091 or Hardframe? #8^)

Hey, the A2091 is just out and they discontinue it? Of course you meant
the A2090 (non-autobooting) and the A2090A (autobooting).  From the CBM COMDEX
press releases there seem to be two new controllers: the 2091 and the 2091-40.
The second one is referred as "more powerful". As far as what will go into
new machines, this is verbatim from one of the press releases:

"The more powerful A2091-40 is an autobooting 40 MB SCSI hard disk and 
controller which has been incorporated as a standard component into the 
Commodore Amiga 200HD and is also avaliable as a periperal."

Or the press release could just be bogus and there is only one controller
(the A2091) and the A2091-40 = A2091 + fast 40M HD (press people are known
to know very little of what they are talking about :-)

-- Marco Papa 'Doc'
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