Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!concertina!fiddler From: fiddler%concertina@Sun.COM (Steve Hix) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: On Amiga 500, 2000 and Expansion etc. Message-ID: <37203@sun.uucp> Date: 22 Dec 87 21:30:58 GMT References: <1827@houxa.UUCP> <2957@cbmvax.UUCP> Sender: news@sun.uucp Lines: 21 In article <2957@cbmvax.UUCP>, daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) writes: > in article <1827@houxa.UUCP>, shah1@houxa.UUCP (J.SHAH) says: >> Summary: A500, A2000 etc > >> So to me the A2000 expansion capability is worth about $300 more not $1000. > > But like you said, you're not a power user. You won't want fast 68020 cards > or DSP boards or deinterlacers or Video peripherals. I do! I do! I do! (Now if I can just find a small foreign government that would loan me the cash...) Guess I'll make do with an A500 for now. > They really run in parallel. > And they're compatible across the family of Amigas :) Which means I can get started now (well, pretty soon), and get started doing interesting stuff and upgrade later, rather than having to wait n millenia to do *anything*. seh