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Subject: Re: upgrades and standards (or Live! for the A2000)
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Date: Tue, 27-Oct-87 23:28:59 EST
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In article <1778@dino.cpe.ulowell.edu> miner@dino.cpe.ulowell.edu (Rich (My watch band broke and they discontinued the line) Miner) writes:
<We have recently acquired the bus-adaptor that Micro-Botics has come out 
<with to allow the star-board II to be placed in the A2000. It works nice for
<their RAM and can be used for disk controllers and other peripherals. We 
<actually just got Amiga Live! working in the A2000 with the adaptor.

Yeah, I know about the Microbotics adapter card. So how do I plug a
Zorro I card into it? Or do I plug my entire rack into it? Better yet,
now do people with microforge racks and/or cards plug them into it?

<>Sure, the internal bus is nice. But there's no way to put (expensive) 
<>old cards into it.
<
<Wrong!  I would suggest if all you have is one or two side mounts that
<you should seriously consider the upgrade, while it is still available.
<The bus adaptor costs around $30, it's a bargain!

No, I'm right. The microbotics adapter is a neat thing. But it doesn't
help people who followed Perrys advice (and it was good advice) and
bought a rack. And that's where the problem is.

The SOTS stuff was tagged as being problematical all along. That it
can be used in the A2000, while the Zorro I (the way CBM said you
should go) stuff won't is almost funny. If I didn't have Zorro I
hardware, I'd probably not have used the "almost."

	<mike
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