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From: mwm@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike (My watch has windows) Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: A500
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Date: Wed, 3-Jun-87 05:06:51 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun  3 05:06:51 1987
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In article <331@esunix.UUCP> blgardne@esunix.UUCP (Blaine Gardner) writes:
< I just found out that the local (SLC, Utah) Amiga dealer has an A500 in
<store! I'll be checking it out tomorrow in person, but it's nice to know
<that the A500 isn't vaporware after all! How's the rest of the country
<doing on the new Amigas?

The local dealer here (Winner's Circle, Oakland) got one (exactly one)
about 36 hours ago.

As expected, it's an Amiga. Everything I tried on it ran like a charm,
or didn't (thus emulating the A1000 :-). Haven't tried typing at that
keyboard for very long yet. Other things of interest we haven't tried yet:

	1) Plugging a monochrome monitor into it (I'm considering picking
	one up with monochrome (paperwhite, maybe?) just to have a
	spare system).

	2) Plugging any kind of expansion (other than the second floppy)
	into it. Almost tried the Microbotics hard disk, but decided
	not to after checking the pinouts on the || port.

It even booted off of an A1000 wb (33.47). I noticed that it's got a
newer wb (33.56), and contemplated trying a copy of that on an A1000,
but decided not to.

Anyone want to tell us what's different between .47 and .56 (just the
code for the clock?), and how upset people will be if we, uh,
"borrow" a copy for use at home?

	<mike
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