Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!wuarchive!udel!sbcs!eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu!dtiberio From: dtiberio@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Amiga 1500 Message-ID: <1991Apr8.035530.1438@sbcs.sunysb.edu> Date: 8 Apr 91 03:55:30 GMT References: Sender: usenet@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Usenet poster) Distribution: usa Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook Lines: 34 In article debotton@pilot.njin.net (Leonard Debotton) writes: >So, how come the 32 bit chipset is 6 years late!!! :) :) > >Just kidding...I've been reading a few articles every once in awhile >regarding an Amiga somewhere between the Amiga 500 & the 2000, so let >me pose a few suggestions... > >1. Those PC Tower cases which are advertised every month in Computer > Shopper seem to be big enough (and cheap enough) that someone could > probably fit an Amiga 500 motherboard (w/ room to spare) inside one of > them. > >2. Has anyone (yet) put together a zorro II backplane that wuld plug > onto the Amiga 500's expansion bus? I'm thinking specifically of > something that could be used w/ #1, so that you'd effectively have > an A2000 in a tower case for less money. > >So, have any companies done this? Are any likely to do this? >Is this a bad idea? Comments... > >Len > There is a new a500 case 0out called Avant, and it is better than the Bodega Bay. Avant turns the a500 into an a2000 look alike. David -- David Tiberio SUNY Stony Brook 2-3481 AMIGA DDD-MEN -- Any students from SUNY Oswego? Please let me know! :)