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From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga 500 hard drives?
Message-ID: <2780@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 15-Nov-87 06:06:37 EST
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.2780
Posted: Sun Nov 15 06:06:37 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 16-Nov-87 05:38:45 EST
References: <334@auvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
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Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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Keywords: Hard drives, A500

In article <334@auvax.UUCP> willis@auvax.UUCP (Tony Willis) writes:
> I recently bought an Amiga 500 and would like to upgrade the machine
> to include a 20 Mb hard drive. However my friendly local Amiga dealer
> tells me that nothing is yet available because of something to do with
> "a cable has to be modified" so that drives currently used for the
> 1000 can also run on the 500. Can anybody from Commodore give me an
> estimate as to when hard drives will be available for the 500?

The Microbotics MAS-20 drive should be easily adaptable to the A500
parallel port, in fact I would expect they would now have some kind of
adapter or alternate cable available.  I believe some other company,
whose name I seem to have forgotten, may have taken over retailing this
drive, check with Microbotics anyhow.

There has been no announcement of a Commodore branded A500 hard drive.
I believe several of the A1000 peripheral manufactures are working on,
or have completed A500 versions of their products - check around.

-- 
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