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From: rodney@gitpyr.UUCP (RODNEY RICKS)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Sidecar available in Germany ???
Message-ID: <2207@gitpyr.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 2-Sep-86 02:50:24 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  2 02:50:24 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 9-Sep-86 23:51:42 EDT
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Reply-To: rodney@gitpyr.UUCP (RODNEY RICKS)
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga.
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A few weeks ago, my boss was talking with someone from a computer store
in France.  He said that they had three sidecars in his store.  I am not
100 percent certain whether they were for sale or merely pre-release
versions (but why would they have THREE pre-release sidecars?).

Also, I have had a chance to play with a pre-release sidecar right here
in the U.S.  This sidecar is quite old.  It seems to be of pre-Comdex
vintage, since it doesn't have the color graphics drivers in yet, and
doesn't seem to recoginize any more disk drives than the built in one.

The drive on this sidecar is way out of alignment from being carried around
alot.  Because of this, it won't format and has problems reading simple
unprotected DOS disks.  As far as compatibility goes, everything that
we could get loaded on the unaligned drive seemed to run, including 
Lotus 1-2-3, Word Perfect, a new golf game from Electronic Arts (however,
the color didn't come out correctly, because of the lack of drivers), and
a couple of others.

We also ran Norton's utilities to test the performance of the Sidecar as
compared to a standard IBM PC.  It came out as a 1.0, which is the same as
an IBM.

By the way, it seems that you might be able to start up the Amiga with the
Sidecar and turn off the Amiga and leave the Sidecar running, as someone
on the net asked about.
 
Rodney Ricks,
   (Not officially respresenting...)    The 64 Store.  Atlanta, Georgia 30339

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