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From: mjw@aluxp.UUCP (Michael Weber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Best Amiga 500 Configuration
Message-ID: <944@aluxp.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jan 88 19:16:12 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Cedar Crest
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Keywords: memory, monitor, drive controller


    After two LONG years of occasionally dropping into this newsgroup
    and  reading  about all the praise and support being given to the
    Amiga, I'll finally be able to purchase a 500 in March.   I  hope
    that all the drooling turns out to be worth it!
    
    Given that I do not want (read: can't afford) an Amiga 2000,  I'd
    like   to  solicit  opinions  of  the  best  A-500  configuration
    currently  available.   My  current  research  (through   Amazing
    Computing,  Amiga  World,  and  Info)  has  led  me  towards  the
    following:

    (1)  Amiga 500 (Commodore-Amiga)
    (2)  512K internal memory expansion with clock/calendar
         (Progressive Peripherals)
    (3)  A-1010 3.5" External Drive (Commodore-Amiga)
    (4)  A-1084 RGB Color Monitor (Commodore-Amiga)
    (5)  1.5M internal memory expansion (Spirit Technologies InBoard)

    I already have a USR Courier 2400 modem and an AT&T 473  printer.
    I  expect  the  price  of the Amiga hard disk controllers to drop
    when the market for them grows so I'll wait it out for this  item
    (6-12 months).

    I do have a  few  reservations  about  the  above  configuration.
    First,   can   the  A-500  power  supply  drive  the  Progressive
    Peripherals 512K internal  memory  expansion,  the  1.5MB  Spirit
    Technologies internal memory expansion, and another peripheral or
    two hanging off the expansion port?  I suspect that it cannot and
    would like suggestions on the best way to resolve the problem.
    
    Are the internal memory expansion boards I'm leaning towards  the
    best  choices  possible (number of wait states, fast memory, chip
    memory, etc.)?
    
    Are there better monitors in the same price range as  the  A-1084
    available?
    
    My e-mail address appears below but feel free  to  post  to  this
    newsgroup since may people just entering the Amiga arena may also
    benefit from it.
-- 
Michael Weber					...!ihnp4!aluxp!mjw
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Allentown, Pennsylvania				(215) 770-2732