Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!rutgers!princeton!udel!rochester!PT.CS.CMU.EDU!andrew.cmu.edu!mp1u+ From: mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Obsolescence of A1000 Message-ID: Date: Sat, 24-Oct-87 07:10:33 EST Article-I.D.: andrew.wVU8edy00V41YY40Bq Posted: Sat Oct 24 07:10:33 1987 Date-Received: Mon, 26-Oct-87 01:43:43 EST Organization: Carnegie Mellon University Lines: 29 Personally, I don't give a damn about the peripheral market for the 500 and 2000 if some third-party (Perry, are you listening?) comes out with the following product for the A1000: An A2000 form-factor card cage. No, not a 2000-and-1 box. Really, I *don't* want IBM compatibity on my Amiga, and really don't want to pay for it. If I wanted IBM compatibilty, I would have bought one. As it is, I can use one of my housemate's PC's if I have to (one of them is a Commodore PC-10, BTW). All I want is a box with two to four A2000 form-factor slots, along the lines of the ASDG MiniRack series. I talked to Perry on the phone about a 2MB expansion including MiniRack-C, but I'm willing to bet the slot is A1000 form-factor and would close off a great number of expansion options once A1000 stuff is obsolete. True? I understand that the bus timing is much more robust on the 2000 than the 1000, simply because the 2000 contains no KickStart tower to louse things up. Would this get in the way of a compatible card cage? --M Michael Portuesi / Carnegie-Mellon University ARPA/UUCP: mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu BITNET: rainwalker@drycas (a uVax-1 run by CMU Computer Club) "Boys living next door are never what they seem" --Bananarama, "Robert DeNiro's Waiting"