Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!husc6!bbn!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!mp1u+ From: mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: STARBOARD expansion... Message-ID: Date: 13 Nov 88 23:51:07 GMT References: <1092@cunixc.columbia.edu>, <5160014@hplsla.HP.COM> Organization: Carnegie Mellon Lines: 30 In-Reply-To: <5160014@hplsla.HP.COM> > *Excerpts from ext.nn.comp.sys.amiga: 11-Nov-88 Re: STARBOARD expansion...* > *Tom Bruhns@hplsla.HP.COM (934)* > One, but not both at the same time of: > Stardrive -- SCSI interface and real-time clock -- See discussions in this > group recently about what drives people use and performance, etc. > (Oh, gosh, I don't remember the exact name of the other one...) > Special Function Module (???) -- holds a 68881 and allows you to use > parity with your memory in the host Starboard2 The Special Function module also has a battery-backed clock, so you at least get the clock no matter which of the two "option" boards you purchase. > I've recently gotten some Microbotics Starboard stuff from InterComputing, > I think it is, in Texas. They are relatively "next-door" to Microbotics > and seem to be able to get the products quickly. I think their ad > in the latest AmigaWorld lists prices for all this stuff. I purchased my Starboard + Stardrive from InterComputing. They had the lowest composite price of all the places I called, which is basically everyone who advertises in AmigaWorld. They shipped my order very fast. --M Michael Portuesi / Information Technology Center / Carnegie Mellon University ARPA: mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu BITNET: mp1u+%andrew.cmu.edu@cmccvb UUCP: ...harvard!andrew.cmu.edu!mp1u+ "my friends say she's a dumb blonde, but they don't know she dyes her hair"