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From: mwills@x102a (wills ms 01309)
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Subject: Re: Just bought a "Power Up" A3000/25-50
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Date: 10 May 91 15:29:07 GMT
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In <1991May5.003042.29062@menudo.uh.edu> jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J Eric Townsend) writes:
>1.  I bought: A3000/25-50 at "Power Up" price and a 1950 monitor
>for $3024 (tax included).
My dealer quotes his "Power-Up" flyer:
  A3000/16-50  $1849  w/user manual cover (which one? RKM, DOS Ref...  :-)
  A3000/25-50  $2249                       Pretty grey 3-hole user man :-(
  A3000/25-100 $3199

inciting these questions:

1. What would be involved in a later upgrade from 16MHz to 25MHz?  I'm
told IBMers must swap entire motherboards.  Could it be only a faster
cpu and different clock (new crystal or is it solid state?) here?

2. What's involved in going from 50MB HD to 100MB or greater?  Is
there room and controller support for an additional drive?  Whose?

3. What's needed to upgrade to Unix?  I gather that it's not available
(at least unbundled) yet from comp.unix.amiga... Are all the guys who
have it developers?

4. Which DOS ROMs will I find in a new A3000/25-50?  2.0X ?
--

					- Scott
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