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From: utoddl@uncecs.edu (Todd M. Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A590 Controller
Message-ID: <1990Sep11.202511.17745@uncecs.edu>
Date: 11 Sep 90 20:25:11 GMT
References: <1952@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca>
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
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In article <1952@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes:
>Well, the A590 has the A590 controller. It's functionally equivalent to the
>2091. There is no problem with overscan. It does have an interface that the
>2091 does not have, but it is not ST506; it is IDE (or whatever the IBMers call
>their kludge).

Wonderful.  So in theory it should be possible to make an A590 work with
an A2000.  It would take some mechanical work, certainly, but shouldn't
it be possible?

I suspect there are lots of people out there who have A590s on either
A1000s or A500 who would like to get an Amiga with slots but don't want
to leave their A590s behind.  This, to me, is the biggest chink in the
Amiga line--if you start small (with an A500) and want to upgrade later,
you have to ditch the extra hardware you have accumulated along the way.

Seems like there should be a cheap way to do this.  If anybody comes up
with one, I'd like to hear about it.
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