Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!easy!lron
From: lron@easy.UUCP (Dwight Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re:  The new A500/030
Message-ID: <lron.10469054@easy.UUCP>
Date: 18 Oct 90 05:25:08 GMT
References: <1990Oct11.140806.9376@canterbury.ac.nz>,<15179@cbmvax.commodore.com> <0093E526.8ACBDAC0@EA.USL.EDU>
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>In article <0093E526.8ACBDAC0@EA.USL.EDU> leecemb@EA.USL.EDU writes:
>
>I have a great Idea for an A500/30 or for that matter a new A500.
>
>Take the mother board of the A3000/16.
>
>Remove the expansion slots (to save space and money),
>       the hard drive      ('                     '),
>
>Keep the keyboard, mouse, one drive (preferably 1.44 meg)
>     SCSI port, paralell and serial ports.
>
>Rework it so you still have the CPU expasion port
>   and put one Zorro III slot where the hard drive slot is.
>

>And sell it with the 1950 monitor for about $1200.

I like the Idea, except the part about changing the location of the slots.
If you move the slots you are no longer using a 3000 motherboard which is
a big problem because it would require a different production line to produce
the board.  The R&D cost would be very little but the cost of tooling up a
new production line would not be.  However I could see the posibility of
producing a 3000/16 without the 68881, keep the slots (the board can't be
that expensive), take out the hard drive and only keep 1 Meg of chip ram.
and sell it for around 1500 (without the monitor) it would make a good
replacement for the current 2000.  Drop the price of the 2000 to the $800-$900
price range and we could all smile as all the talk about cheap Macs disappears
from this newsgroup.

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