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From: valentin@cbmvax.commodore.com (Valentin Pepelea)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A Few Questions on the A3000
Message-ID: <11246@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 2 May 90 05:11:17 GMT
References: <6971@orca.wv.tek.com>
Reply-To: valentin@cbmvax (Valentin Pepelea)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <6971@orca.wv.tek.com> whansen@vsgft1.WV.TEK.COM (Bill Hansen) writes:
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>The tape said the machine can take a bridge card, is this indentical to a
>2000 bridge card or different?

The same bridge card that the A2000 uses.

>How does the 3000 bridge card access hard drives? How do you attach a 5-1/4
>inch floppy?

Like usual.

>Does the 3000 have a composite video out? (For feeding to a VCR for example.)

Nope. Video buffs are expected to use genlocks and other such fancy
equipment. An RF modulator is still available.

>Is it true that BOTH the roms for 1.3 and 2.0 are on the mother board.

No. The A3000's that your dealer currently has loads in the kickstart image
from the hard drive and uses the MMU to map it at $F00000.

>Do the CHIP and FAST ram areas use the same kind of ram? (and can you order
>more than the default amount pre-installed.)

Yes. The fast ram area accepts to types of chip pinouts. The usual DIPs and
exotic ZIPs. They won't be so exotic in a few years. If you want to add more
fast ram, the right thing to do is take the DIPs out of the fast ram DIP
sockets and plug them into the chip ram DIP sockets. Then plug in ZIPs in
the fast ram ZIP sockets. You may plug either 1 megabit or 4 megabit ZIPs in
there.

Valentin
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