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From: brianr@tekig4.TEK.COM (Brian Rhodefer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga 1000 buy-back & changing standards...
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Date: Sat, 24-Oct-87 04:24:40 EST
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Posted: Sat Oct 24 04:24:40 1987
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Reply-To: brianr@tekig4.UUCP (Brian Rhodefer)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
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I have a friend who would like to own an amiga, but is involved
with a fledgling business and balks at the price.  Fortunately,
his brother owns a bare-bones A1000, and, because of some specific
software package, wishes to switch to a Mac, giving the A1000
to my friend.  

So straightened are my friend's funds, however, that he'll have a
hard time just buying an external 3.5" drive.  His view of the
situation was very interesting:

An external 3.5" drive costs damn near as much as an entire (used)
A1000 seems to be worth today!  Why not buy another A1000, and use
it as "a VERY well buffered intelligent disk server"?

Would it be difficult to network two amigae this way, say, through
their parallel ports?  If easily done, it might be attractive
to music synthesis folks:  eight voices!

Still too ignorant of AmigaDOS to assess the difficulty,

Brian Rhodefer