Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga:75256 comp.sys.amiga.hardware:5293 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!gatech!ncsuvx!news From: kdarling@hobbes.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: How about this for a new Amiga? Message-ID: <1990Dec27.164742.10964@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> Date: 27 Dec 90 16:47:42 GMT References: <1990Dec26.021940.29445@usenet@scion.CS.ORST.EDU> Sender: news@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: NCSU Computing Center Lines: 23 bob@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU (robert s. richardson) asks for a new Amiga model with close to these features (without monitor): 1. More onboard memory capability 2. SCSI port 3. Nice case with room for another drive 4. 20meg Hard disk 5. $1150 or so price Actually, it seems to me that a third party could buy A500's at wholesale, drop the motherboard into a clone case, and add the RAM, a SCSI interface and HD, and come up with pretty close to what you wanted. But they wouldn't be making lots of money, and the keyboard could be a problem (either slice up the old A500 case, make new case, or use a Northgate?). Haven't kept up with the ECS prices either... that could make a diff. I think CBM could do your machine tho. After all, we managed to come close to that, building the MM/1 computer. And we certainly don't have the buying power or R&D resources of CBM. But we don't have their overhead, either ;-). In any case, I suspect they like to hear what people want. I wonder if CBM has a skunkworks where a few engineers think about, and mock up, different and future models? Dave H?