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From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Obsolescence of A1000
Message-ID: <2650@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 29-Oct-87 01:42:05 EST
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.2650
Posted: Thu Oct 29 01:42:05 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 3-Nov-87 04:24:36 EST
References: <0VUc38y00Uha4Dk041@andrew.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <0VUc38y00Uha4Dk041@andrew.cmu.edu> mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi) writes:
> grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) writes:
> 
> > All the Perry's A2000+1 box pays for PC compatibilty is the extra
> > connectors for the PC/AT slots.  This is no big deal compared to
> > the cost of the PC board, power supply and metal work.
> 
> Then why do the MiniRack-C and MiniRack-D cost several hundred
> dollars less than the 2000-and-1?  Really, I don't want to pay
> for two A1000 form-factor slots plus all the PC slots and the
> coprocessor slot.

A) Power supply - more slots, more capacity needed, more $$$

B) Casework - the A2000+1 I think is supposed to be more complicated
 
> Plain and simply put, if I had the money to buy the 2000-and-1
> box (or the $1000 for the 1000 ==> 2000 upgrade) I would simply
> buy a hard disk for my 1000 and be done with it.  By the time I
> can afford these options, they won't be available to me anymore.
> My expansion desires are very simple; a few meg of memory and a
> reasonable-sized hard disk.  It was hard enough to afford A1000
> expansion before the 500/2000 came out; the new machines will
> only make it worse by drying up the A1000 market.  I'm not
> bellyaching about the fact the A1000 expansion market will be
> trashed; what I am complaining about is that nobody is offering a
> *****LOW COST***** way to use A2000 peripheral cards.  I'm sure
> at least one other person on the net feels the same way I do. 

I would expect someone to sooner or later blow off a copy of the original
"Zorro" backplane board from the Expansion Architecture Manual.  Works good
on the A1000 if you use less radical terminators and LS buffers instead of
F parts.  Of course it couldn't be a product what with the FCC and all, but
one could make a kit of the PC board, connectors and PAL's.

-- 
George Robbins - now working for,	uucp: {ihnp4|rutgers|allegra}!cbmvax!grr
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