Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!cs.umn.edu!ariel.unm.edu!hydra.unm.edu!kholland From: kholland@hydra.unm.edu (Kiernan Holland) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: Revised Amiga line Message-ID: <1991May13.215422.13691@ariel.unm.edu> Date: 13 May 91 21:54:22 GMT Article-I.D.: ariel.1991May13.215422.13691 References: <4734@orbit.cts.com> Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Lines: 76 From kholland Mon May 13 15:46:25 1991 Received: by hydra.unm.edu (5.54/0.1) id ; Mon, 13 May 91 15:46:09 MDT Date: Mon, 13 May 91 15:46:09 MDT From: Mail Delivery Subsystem Subject: Returned mail: Host unknown Message-Id: <9105132146.AA19341@hydra.unm.edu> To: kholland Status: R ----- Transcript of session follows ----- 550 mwills@x102a... Host unknown ----- Unsent message follows ----- Received: by hydra.unm.edu (5.54/0.1) id ; Mon, 13 May 91 15:46:09 MDT Date: Mon, 13 May 91 15:46:09 MDT From: Kiernan Holland Message-Id: <9105132146.AA19329@hydra.unm.edu> To: mwills@x102a Subject: Re: Just bought a "Power Up" A3000/25-50 Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc In-Reply-To: <6246@trantor.harris-atd.com> References: <1991May5.003042.29062@menudo.uh.edu> Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Cc: 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 ------------------------ Well I wouldn't consider that, just wait for the 68040 upgrade coming later on this year (68040's are like 100Mhz 68030's). Don't worry about the hard drive problem. 52 Meg Hard drives (SCSI, since the 3000's have SCSI) sell for 300 dollars currently. You can also buy 100 meg hard drives for around 400 dollars. 210 Meg hard drives cost around 600 dollars. 2 megabytes of Static Column RAM cost 140 dollars (so you can get the full 16 megs for 1120 dollars with SCRAM). The 3000's use SCRAM ZIP, SCRAM 1X4, DRAM ZIP, DRAM 1X4. I Think 1X4 Dram's are going for 100 dollars per 2megs (but you do not get the 16 meg maximum unless you buy a ram card in addition to the motherboard ram. You can have upto 7 SCSI hard drives (daisy chained) so don't worry about hard drive space. The casing will only probably hold one more hared drive but there is a SCSI port on the back (32-bit by the way). Upgrade? Well the minimum I have heard is 40 Meg HD and 5 megs of ram. That's no problem really. I have seen the Amiga 3000/UX in performance and it is not all that great however you can use the Amiga side for system management (Imagine being able to move files using point and click). (I mean, on OS 2.0, you can select files graphically by point and click or using box select [like cut and paste features]) I got 2.01, but somebody (higher up CBM developer) told me that 2.02 works terrific. The ROMS don't seem to be inside the system any longer. It is now all stored in the hard drive (so you don't have to replace ROMS when you want to upgrade, and you can have multiple kickstarts, neat). Later