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From: cg108fgj@ICOGSCI1.UCSD.EDU (Dennis Lou)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Lucas and a Hardrive
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Date: 9 Jun 91 00:09:37 GMT
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In article <1991Jun6.193332.5358@en.ecn.purdue.edu> doctorj@en.ecn.purdue.edu
writes:
>In article <1991Jun6.122014.29857@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> mnc@turing.acs.virginia.edu (Michael N. Chapman) writes:
>>Also, does anyone know any other good ways to upgrade (cost effectively) a 1000?I like the look of the  1000 and would like to keep it around for another couple years... :-) 
>
>The MAST Starblazer (8 Meg + SCSI module) looks pretty cost effective.  At
>one time both were available for ~$120 w/0K.  Now, you can't beat the price.
>But does anyone have any experience (good/bad) with one of these?  I would
>consider getting one simply for a cheap 8M of extra RAM; if it could address
>around the rest of my system memory.

Yes, I have experience with MAST and their Starblazer.  The
Starblazer is NOT AVAILABLE!  I had my Visa ready and waiting and
everything.  Also, it costs way too much to buy their RAM
($199/2meg? using custom modules)

That's why I got a Xetec.  Properly fits on the side of my A1000
(no A500 hack here), was cheap ($175 controller, $85 RAM connector),
used Mac SIMMS (bought 4 megs of Sun SIMMS for $85), you can get
(or "have to get") your own case and power supply ($29 from Halted
Specialties), is pretty fast, and can autoconfig/autoboot (if you
have a Kwikstart board to get past Kickstart).  Supposedly, tech
support from Xetec is supposed to be phenomenal, but I haven't had
to use it.

Couple that with the falling prices of Q105S drives, you can have
yourself a decent hard drive subsystem for your Amiga.

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