Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!romp!auschs!awdprime!sabre.austin.ibm.com!robin From: robin@sabre.austin.ibm.com (Robin D. Wilson/1000000) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Amiga Newsfeeds (Kinda long!) Keywords: Amiga 3000, UNIX, Usenet, UUCP Message-ID: <2103@awdprime.UUCP> Date: 12 Apr 90 14:41:19 GMT References: <2910@rodan.acs.syr.edu> Sender: news@awdprime.UUCP Reply-To: robin@reed.UUCP (Robin D. Wilson/1000000) Organization: IBM AWD, Austin, TX Lines: 54 In article <2910@rodan.acs.syr.edu> bwdavies@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Davies) writes: >| >|Ideally I'd like to spend less than $5000 total. >| > You shouldn't have any problem with that, unless you get an >outrageously huge disk drive. (Lessee, what's Imprimis selling 512 Meg >SCSI drives for these days? ) At a (very) rough estimate: an >A2000, $1800; Mitsubishi DiamondScan monitor, $550; SupraRAM 2000 >memory board w/2 meg, $320; SCSI host adaptor with drive, anywhere from >$700 to $1100+. That's roughly $3,370 to $3,770. Oh, and add another >$120 for a second floppy, you'll want it. Plus the cost of the modem. Actually, the latest prices I saw were more like: A2000 -- $1300 Mitsu Diamond Scan -- $500 GVP A2000-8 SCSI/MEM W/2Meg -- $525 Maxtor XT-3280 SCSI (This drive is out of date, that's 280 Meg drive -- $799 why it so cheap. Get it from IME*) Second Floppy -- $120 2400 bps Modem -- $120 9600 Modem -- $?? (Depends.. Get one just like the site you are calling or you may live to regret it.) So my total is: -- $3364 And I got a 244 (formatted) SCSI drive! *The 280Meg (244Meg formatted) drives are at: International Materials Exchange, Inc. 1340 Soldiers Field Road Boston, MA 02135 Tel. (617) 254-1700 Fax. (617) 254 0392 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |The views expressed herein, are the sole responsibility of the typist at hand| +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |USNail: UUCP: | |2323 Wells Branch Pkwy., #G107 cs.utexas.edu!romp!ibmchs!auschs\ | |Austin, TX 78728 !sabre.austin.ibm.com!robin | |Home: (512)251-6889 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^<-MUST BE INCLUDED| +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+