Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Anyone actually own an 040 Amiga? Message-ID: <1991May5.120217.24294@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 5 May 91 12:02:17 GMT References: <91124.170117MBS110@psuvm.psu.edu> <+q2G9+1*1@cs.psu.edu> Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX Lines: 49 In article <+q2G9+1*1@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: > Then buy the Boulder today for an extra $1500 to $2000 so you can > expand it in three years. I could buy a *car* for the price of the CuBE. Get real. > People buy Pizza box > SparcStations. I wonder why? Got an answer? No they don't. Corporations with networks do. We have two of the buggers at work, and buying a shoebox so you can actually use it without blowing the net was a real shocker. These Pizza-box machines make fantastic X terminals, though. > REALLLLYYYY!!! What about the super expandable Amiga 1000? Well, it's SIX YEARS after the 1000 came out and it finally looks like you'll have to do a hardware mod to keep up to date. I think six years of staying on the cutting edge of the PC world is pretty damn good for a first try. > What's > going to happen to it? I'm keeping mine. It looks good next to my 3000. > That was just a protoype right? Can I get > half bright mode for an early Amiga 1000? Yes. Just swap a chip. Cheap. > How about 2 megs of chip RAM? That's tougher. Takes a hardware mod. But doable. The only important expansion is the 512K of kickstart ROM. Everything else is just a frill. > Slabs cost $2500. No they don't. A base NeXTstation is over 5 grand for normal people. > If NeXT doesn't offer another board for the Slab, > I'll just order out for another pizza box. I imagine that an 040 NeXT > will still be worth $1000 to $1500 in three years(slab only). Tell that to the people with PC Jrs. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .