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From: ammrk@swbatl.sbc.com (Mike R. Kraml)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Summary of A3000 answers
Message-ID: <1990Jun12.213632.7738@swbatl.sbc.com>
Date: 12 Jun 90 21:36:32 GMT
References: <5712@hub.ucsb.edu>
Reply-To: ammrk@swbatl.UUCP (Mike R. Kraml)
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In article <5712@hub.ucsb.edu> dz@cornu.ucsb.edu (Daniel James Zerkle) writes:
>Earlier, I posted a whole lot of questions.  I was asked to summarize
>some of the answers, so here they are:
>
>General:  A3000 has 4 Zorro 3 slots.  2 are inline with AT slots, 1 with
>video slot, 1 with CPU slot.  Putting a card in a slot may cover the
>inline slot, rendering it useless.
Nope: Actually the CPU slot is towards the front right side of the machine 
where the card runs parallel under the drive bay.

>
>1950:  Normal multisync, but supposedly high quality.  The .31 dot pitch
>is not the greatest (.28 is best), but supposedly handles certain video
Actually .21 (my SONY CDP1310 (OEM highend Mulitsync) would be considered
better that .28, but I am sure there is better.

>modes better than others.  One person said it is "mushy", whatever that
>means.
>
>SCSI:  Plug & play, controller included in box.  Got conflicting reports
>about termination.  My guess is that it would be safest to terminate any
Its always safe to say terminate the last and only the last SCSI device 
in the chain.  This goes for most daisy chained devices (including ST506).

>new devices.  Note:  the 3000 has only 1 available drive bay after the
>hard disk and floppy disk are installed.  Might be best to make second
>floppy external, so new hard drive can be internal.
>
>Graphics modes with > 4096 colors:  12 bit graphics are built into the
>data paths on the motherboard, so new modes would have to come from a
>card.  These will be non-standard, most likely.  Commodore says (in Byte)
>"We are working on both short term and long term solutions."  In other
>words:  "Don't hold your breath."
>
>OS updates:  OS currently loads into RAM, so updates will be on floppy.
>Will eventually be put into ROMs.
>
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