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From: dltaylor@cns.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Dan Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Amiga 3000 trade up offer
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Date: 29 Apr 91 23:42:20 GMT
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In <1991Apr29.064832.9865@disk.uucp> specter@disk.uucp (Byron Max Guernsey) writes:

>I was told by a friend (who also deals in IBM's) that he would sell me a 100
>meg SCSI for around 300$ new.

Not these drives, he can't.  The Amiga drives have a builtin cache,
and decent access times.  For his prices you might as well use floppies ;-).

The RAM price may seem high, but the higher numbered Amigas use page-mode
chips to work efficiently with the 68030 cache.  They are also installed,
already, and tested.  If you can beat the prices, (it is possible), then
install it yourself, you are welcome to.  After all, they will sell you
the less expensive system.  Also, remember your friend may be leaving
out any, or all, of his profit in that price, although I still don't
believe $300, or even $400, for a caching SCSI (synchronous-capable) sub-
20 MS access drive.

Dan Taylor