Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu!ztsindi From: ztsindi@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Bill Gant) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: Amiga 1000 Message-ID: <53352@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> Date: 3 Jan 91 13:08:13 GMT References: <37511@cup.portal.com> Sender: news@acsu.Buffalo.EDU Reply-To: ztsindi@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu Distribution: na Organization: University at Buffalo Lines: 65 Nntp-Posting-Host: ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS V1.3-4.4 Posted for Clayton J. Miner...Text to Follow ----------------------------------------------------------------- | Todd G Vaarwerk | Bitnet: ZTSINDI@UBVMS | | State University of | Internet: ZTSINDI@UBVMS.CC.BUFFALO.EDU | | New York at Buffalo | VAARWERK@ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU | |---------------------------------------------------------------| | Disclaimer: Believe what you want .. I trashed all my views of| | reality ages ago d8-) | ----------------------------------------------------------------- In article <37511@cup.portal.com>, Azog-Thoth@cup.portal.com (William Thomas Daugustine) writes... > >Ive the possibility of getting an Amiga 1000, with 1084 monitor, plus >some assorted software, for around $600 (price flexiable). Id like >to ask the general opinion of this price, is it fair? > >I relize that I can get an Amiga 500 for the same price, but even tho >the 1000 predates the 500 (only a year, or so), the 1000 seems a >bit more advanced. > >Also, is it possible to add a hard drive to this system? Etc info on >hard drive... > As a die hard 1000 user, I have to be honest and tell you that given the option of getting the 1000 set up and the 500 setup, go with the 500. Granted the 1000 is more asthetically pleasing, but it is not the more advanced system The 1000 is NOT a more advanced system, it is hampered by being an "officially orphaned machine" and therefore you would have to rely on third party hardware support. The biggest trap you would be walking into is that without soime expensive internal expansion boards the 1000 will not be able to accept the new chip sets, the value of which I am not qualified to comment on, as I cannot use them. Also, once you start getting away from the more mundane external expansions such as extrnal drives, the prices of the hardware skyrocket! Take a look at a copy of AmigaWorld and compare hard drive priced for example. There are a host of add-ons that as far as I know will never be compatible with the 1000, although a great number of those are designed for the 2000 so you might not be able to use them in any case. With the 1000 you may run into expansion problems that you didn't count on because everything has to be added outside the machine...the RAM expansions, the hard drives, and so on (well hard drives are external to the 500 also), but this means that the 'footprint' of your machine is going to get bigger, and bigger, and BIGGER! With the 500 for example, a lot of the newer hard drives have room inside the hard drive casing for expansion RAM. I have to get an external RAM box and then I have to make sure that it is compatible with my hard drive controller card or I am back to square one... Also, you did not mention any RAM size in your original post, so I assume that it is a standard 512K machine. To go to a meg or more you start out with a killer expense and that is as far as most boards go, although I understand that there are RAM boards that can take more memory than 1 or 1.5 megs. I spotted an internal card for the 500 the other day that could be populated to 4 megs! If IBM compatibility is a plus for you, then I don't know what to tell you as as far as I know the only way to do it with a 1000 is to get a sidecar (good luck, I haven't seen one in years), while for the 500 I also ran across a small board that gives you MS/DOS compatability internally where the 512k expansion card goes... As much as I love and use my 1000, if you can get a good 500 package, I would seriously recommend it. +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Clayton J. Miner - Reality Engineer | +-------------------------+-------------------------------------------+ | SysOp - Known World BBS | Bitnet: ZTSINDI@UBVMS | | (716)-883-3083 300-2400 | Internet: ZTSINDI@UBVMS.CC.BUFFALO.EDU | +-------------------------+-------------------------------------------+ | The views of this post are not those of the host organization. | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+