Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!ucsd!rutgers!cbmvax!cbmehq!cbmger!amiux!holgerl From: holgerl@amiux.UUCP (Holger Lubitz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Wake Up Commodore! Message-ID: Date: 24 Mar 91 23:28:42 GMT References: <19996@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1991Mar20.223535.248@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <873@cns.SanDiego.NCR.COM> Organization: Teuwag Lines: 61 In article <873@cns.SanDiego.NCR.COM> dltaylor@cns.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Dan Taylor) writes: >I think the A1500 (for want of a better name) should be the size >of my A1000, complete with "keyboard garage". I should have the ability to >install 2Mbyte CHIP, have the clock, an A3000-compatible SCSI interface >(I know 16-bit instead of 32, but the same registers, etc.), and 2 sideways >(like some of the PC clones) slots, 1 video, 1 ZorroII. They could even be >built into old A1000 cases, since an SCSI drive will fit nicely where the >KickStart RAM is. (Sorry for the long quote, but I just wanted to repeat this brilliant idea once again...) I also consider myself one of those 'die-hard A1000 owners'. And if Commodore should ever think about a new Amiga between the low-end A500 and the high-end A3000(T), they should definitely consider designing a new board into the old A1000 casing. This might even SAVE money, since there would be no need to design a new casing. We would once again have a REALLY NICE LOOKING computer after the original A1000 and the A3000, no C128-meets-Atari-1040-like A500, and no AT-Clone-like A2000. It seems that you HAVE to care for the case design of a new computer nowadays. Look at a Mac (aaargh, Apple, I know, but they sure know how to design nice cases), or look at a NeXTstation (especially the nice monitor). I would sure be willing to spend several bucks more on a computer (well, actually that would be DM since I live in Germany, but anyway), if I got a nicer case in return. Inside the case, they might as well consider to put in a 68020. Synchronous design would be enough, lets have this one running at 14.32 MHz with 32-bit-RAM-access, and you would already have a computer that is 2-3 times faster than an original 68000-based Amiga. Memory options could include 16 DIP-Sockets for Chip-Memory like in the A3000, with 8 Mega-DIPs already fitted, giving 1 meg of Chip Memory, and maybe 16 ZIP-Sockets for Fast-Memory, giving the possibility to put in another 2 megs of fast memory with Mega-ZIPs, or 8 megs with 4-Mega-Zips. (Nearly every 286-Clone, all 386- and 486-Clones, most of the Macs, and every NeXT offer internal memory expansion capabilities. On the Amiga-Side, only the A3000 is expandable without wasting a slot, though there are SCSI-Controllers and accelerator boards with memory expansion on board) There would even be space for two floppys, since the drives are already less than half the height of the ones that were available back in 1985. And with a mounting bay for a 3,5"-HH-harddrive (which could be placed where the kickstart-piggyback was) you could mount up to 520 MB inside (using the new Fujitsu 2624). Sounds like a dream machine ? No, its actually possible, but only if Commodore sees a market for this one. Best regards, Holger -- Holger Lubitz | holgerl@amiux.uucp Kl. Drakenburger Str. 24 | holgerl@amiux.han.de D-W-3070 Nienburg | cbmvax.commodore.com!cbmehq!cbmger!amiux!holgerl