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From: eberger@godot.psc.edu (Ed Berger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Trump 500 w/ Ram expansion
Message-ID: <736@godot.psc.edu>
Date: 22 Jan 90 00:11:00 GMT
References: <111400077@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> <111400085@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: eberger@godot.UUCP (Ed Berger)
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In article <111400085@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> jhc00614@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
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>     Correction:  I'm sorry, your system cost $160 ram + whatever you
>paid for your system.  I figured the A590 at $650 because that was the
>best quote I got mail order.  What did you pay for your A590 anyways? 
>If you bought it from your dealer, I'm inclined to believe you paid
>close to $700 + tax.

I paid $589 for the A590 from a local authorized dealer, I should have waited
for the educational discount.

>     Regardless, even if you paid $600 for it (my friend got one used
>at that price) you get what you pay for, which is a SLOW drive,
>with a SMALL drive space and no future expandability.

I can exapand by adding 7 more SCSI devices, how many do you have?
Its more than adequate for my current needs. No I will not have the complete
Fish Collection on my drive, but my top picks from said collection.
The drive measures slow.  It is a heck of a lot more responsive than floppies,
and connecting a faster drive did not seem substantial.  Most programs seem
to be made of small files, not just one large one.  Diskperformance is less
noticable under these conditions.


>     Even if it cost you on the low end, $760 for it all, for the extra
>money, I got speed and space and a power supply.  (BTW, the power supply 
>wasn't required, just an extra safety margin, because the A500 system
>is only guaranteed for the computer and external drive.)  Now, with
>that power supply and case, I can expand easily.  When you expand your
>A590, guess what you are going to have to get?, a case and power supply...

If I just replace the internal drive, no I don't need another power-supply.
These days with all the new 200M 3.5" SCSI drives does make it look like
a possibility.  Since the A590 is CBM product. Any Passthru expansion device
which doesn't work with it is BRAINDEAD!

There really isn't much difference between prices for solutions.
The A590 is incredibly easy for anyone to add to an Amiga500.
Adding an external MacType drive should also be a piece of cake.
I haven't seen any solution for A500 hardrives that is going to take 
full height SCSI drives (Which is where some of the largest drives and bargains are.)  

-Ed Berger
eberger@b.psc.edu