Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!rex!ukma!dftsrv!tzeng From: tzeng@sunland.gsfc.nasa.gov (Nigel Tzeng) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: A500 SCSI+Memory (was: A500 Expansion Options?) Message-ID: Date: 9 May 91 17:13:52 GMT References: Sender: news@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Organization: Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD Lines: 53 In-reply-to: c506634@umcvmb.missouri.edu's message of 8 May 91 01:27:07 GMT In article c506634@umcvmb.missouri.edu (Eric Edwards) writes: Path: dftsrv!ukma!wuarchive!udel!sbcs!umcvmb!c506634 From: c506634@umcvmb.missouri.edu (Eric Edwards) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.marketplace Summary: Market/pricing issues make it complicated Keywords: No 40 meg drives need apply Date: 8 May 91 01:27:07 GMT Sender: usenet@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Usenet poster) Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Organization: Hackers without Hard Drives Lines: 68 Xref: dftsrv comp.sys.amiga.misc:1975 comp.sys.amiga.hardware:8263 comp.sys.amiga.marketplace:703 In article kudla@rpi.edu (Robert J. Kudla) writes: > [lotsa text deleted. Basically, he wants a SCSI + Ram expansion board for his A500 but doesn't want to pay for a tiny drive he doesn't need] [supra, GVP and MAST covered] That pretty well covers SCSI adapters that have memory expansion without an aditional board. The DataFlyer is priced very competitively and claims to support a special memory expansion board. However, this board is not yet available and there's no guarantee that it will be reasonably priced. The Trumpcards support a memory expansion board called the Meta-4. The trouble is, the board costs signifigantly more than most seperate expansion boards. Looks like a loser to me. Yes and no...the Meta 4 card is a half sized A2000 card that fits in the little box they sell you. If you're thinking about ever trading in your 500 for a 2000 it may not be a bad bet since it is fully compatible. This is kind of a bogus statement since I upgraded my A500 to a 2000 a year and half ago and sold the whole dohicky at the same time. On the other hand it made life easier for me since I could just plop the Trumpcard into my 2000 to copy all the files off directly instead of going to floppy. Looking back I should have kept the thing since it should also work on the A1000 I bought real cheap. Eric Edwards: c506634 @ "I say we take off and nuke the entire site Inet: umcvmb.missouri.edu from orbit. It's the only way to be sure." Bitnet: umcvmb.bitnet -- Sigourney Weaver, _Aliens_ NT --- sig under construction...