Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!osu-cis!tut!erd
From: erd@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Ethan R. Dicks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: On Amiga 500, 2000 and Expansion etc.
Message-ID: <3901@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 6 Jan 88 03:33:12 GMT
References: <1827@houxa.UUCP> <491@.UUCP>
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Computer and Information Science
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In article <491@.UUCP> alex@.UUCP (Alex Laney) writes:

>I would like to see some sort of PC Bus Adaptor card to make PC Bus peripherals
>accessible without the Bridge card. This is definitely special-purpose. Hmm, 
>maybe PC Bus memory cards could be usable 'cache disks' And networking cards
>are abundant on the PC Bus.

Well, the WEDGE for the 2000 sounds like the right part.  Once those wonderful
fellows up in Canada get one working, it should do the trick.

Also, while on the same topic, I have not given my $.02 USD worth about the
WEDGE, since I am not using it yet.  This is through no fault of the product,
but of local market demands.  I do not have a hard drive to stick on it.  There
are no places in Cowlumbus Ohio which stock _used_ hard drives of any size.  I
do not want to pay $240-$350 USD for a new ST225 with controller.  If anyone
is listening who has a used smallish drive (<30 mb) that is looking for a home,
I could greatly use one.  I am very anxious to get a drive online.  Once I get
a drive, I am going to get a 5 slot PeeCee Extee backplane from Ciarcia's
circuit cellar ( ~$35 bare), so I can write _drivers_ for boards for that
bus.

>Alex Laney   alex@xicom.UUCP   ...utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!xios!xicom!alex
>Xicom Technologies, 205-1545 Carling Av., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
>We may have written the SNA software you use.
>The opinions are my own.

Thanks,
-ethan

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