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From: kdd@well.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Accelerator (actually Sidecar) Questions
Message-ID: <1412@well.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 11-Jul-86 16:14:33 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 11 16:14:33 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 11-Jul-86 23:21:32 EDT
Reply-To: kdd@well.UUCP (Keith David Doyle)
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Keywords: Sidecar, Hard disk

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In article <399@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP> riz@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP (Rizal Ishak) writes:
>Hi, can anyone out here in the net update me with the Amiga 
>Transformer/Accelerator? Does it draw its power from the AMIGA
>cpu or from an external source. Am also interested to know of 
>its availability in Europe, U.K in particular. Thanks in advance.

This brings to mind questions I have been wondering about in regards to
the sidecar, specifically:

	1) does it really have PC bus slots?
	2) if it does, is someone working on software so that I can plug
           a hardcard into it and make the whole box look like an Amiga
           hard disk?  (and I don't much care about P.C. compatibility here)
           Or is this likely to be a problem that has to be solved differently
           for EACH different hardcard/hard-disk etc.  (here's the driver for
           the Mountain DriveCard, here's the one for the Plus HardCard, etc.)
	3) and if I can do that, do I really need a 5-1/4 drive?

Inquiring minds want to know,

Keith Doyle
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