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From: allen@ns.network.com (Allen Middleton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re:  The new A500/030
Message-ID: <1990Oct22.235149.20301@ns.network.com>
Date: 22 Oct 90 23:51:49 GMT
References: <0093E526.8ACBDAC0@EA.USL.EDU> <lron.10469054@easy.UUCP> <947@sagpd1.UUCP>
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In article <947@sagpd1.UUCP> monty@sagpd1.UUCP (Monty Saine) writes:
>In article <lron.10469054@easy.UUCP> lron@easy.UUCP (Dwight Hubbard) writes:
>>>In article <0093E526.8ACBDAC0@EA.USL.EDU> leecemb@EA.USL.EDU writes:
>>>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.
>
>
>	Put it in a case just high enough for  2 - 3 1/2 " drives  side
>	by side. add as much memory as can be profitable (ie 2meg chip and 8 meg
>	fast) and sell it to the workstation crowd. Oh yea put an ethernet
>	card in the one zorro slot.
>
>
>	Monty Saine

-use the 68EC030 recently introduced, won't run UNIX (no MMU), but the chip
is real cheap ($50/1000).