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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: B2000???
Keywords: A2000, B2000
Message-ID: <1973@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca>
Date: 13 Sep 90 21:44:36 GMT
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In <2100@enea.se>, tope@enea.se (Tommy Petersson) writes:
>In article <1990Sep13.155624.15807@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> pab@po.CWRU.Edu (Pete Babic) writes:
>-Pardon me for my ignorance but I saw a few postings about an Amiga B2000.
>-I always thought the Amiga line was A500,A2000,A3000. Is the B2000 a 
>-different version of the 2000? Someone please clarify this for me.
>-
>
>A2000 is the original, German-developed 2000. B2000 is the American remake,
>which is easily recognized by it's 3 RCA jacks instead of two (composite B/W
>video). It's main advantage is that it's upgradable (uses the chipset with
>Agnus, Paula, Denise...). A500's and B2000's do, A1000's and A2000's don't.

The other disadvantages of the A model 2000 were: Flaky, slow ram that used uo
the cproocessor slot, and inability to easily upgrade to 1 meg chip, and the
single socket video slot.

>I have a question there, myself: Is it possible to upgrade a B2000 to
>2 MB chipmem as in A3000? Any problems with other chip upgrades?

Can't do it without considerable hacking, if at all. Best bet is to replace the
motherboard with one that was not designed by elves in the Black Forest.

-larry

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