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From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Amiga 1000 Abandonment
Message-ID: <21122@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 1 May 91 16:05:46 GMT
References: <1991Apr25.042851.8912@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu> <20962@cbmvax.c <1991Apr29.042923.19672@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1991Apr29.042923.19672@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> sharley@isis.UUCP (steve harley) writes:

>in Dave Haynie's article (which i can't quote due to broken software), he
>says to effect: you can't upgrade 128K or 512K macs.  actually, these macs
>are about as upgradable as an A1000.  you can take them just about as far
>as you can a Plus with SCSI ports, memory, accellerators and display
>adaptors. (the only thing you can't do is emulate an Amiga ;)

Not really.  With an A1000, you can, in a fully supported way, add anything
from extra memory to an Zorro compatible card cage with accelerator board.
On the Mac, you have your choice of [a] return to Apple for a board swap, or
[b] hack in some expansion.  Sure, you can get expansion hacks on an A1000 too,
but the A1000 supports expansion, blessed by Commodore, while the early Macs
do not.  In fact, to get the motherboard swap done, Apple made you remove any
hacks you installed yourself.

>-steve harley


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