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From: eberger@godot.psc.edu (Ed Berger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: More on Trumpcard 500
Summary: Lets correct the Corrections!
Message-ID: <738@godot.psc.edu>
Date: 22 Jan 90 00:36:05 GMT
References: <111400078@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> <111400084@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: eberger@godot.UUCP (Ed Berger)
Organization: Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
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In article <111400084@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> jhc00614@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>     Are you looking just to argue?  It seems your messages definitely are
>slanted that way.

I do not mean to argue, I only want more people to realize that the A590
is out there and a good product.

>     As long as we're correcting each other, you are wrong that the A590's
>being sold now have an ST-506 drive.  They WERE old Epson st-506 drives
>but now they are Western Digital 80ms 20 meg scsi's if the information I
>received out of a magazine review is correct.
More information deleted.....

>     So, boys and girls, as a recap, A590 is a 20meg 80 ms SCSI with 2 meg
>of 256kx4 ram for about $900 plus tax?  

... he politely points out that the WD drive in my A590 is not connected to 
the internal SCSI connector, but to the XT connector.

The Trumpcard system I got is
>a Trumpcard 500 with a !!!48 meg!!! !!!28ms!!!! drive, with 2 meg of 
>!!!!80ns!!!!  !!!!SIMM!!!!!, w/ both being compatible with the A2000, let
>alone the A500!!, 

I don't live in the world of nanoseconds when I want to load a program.
The A590 is peppy enough for now, and the forseeable future.
Other people shouldn't be put off by the slow spec. Test drive your 
software on it at a local dealer, and decide that it is too slow.
Don't just look at numbers, and pass it by...
>what are you going to do with your A590 when you want to add another hard drive

Well that depends... What size is it.  How much current does it draw at 5V
How much current at 12V?  I'd better leave that up for when it happens...

-Ed Berger
eberger@b.psc.edu