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From: robertw@hpcvlx.HP.COM (Robert B. Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: M.A.S.T query
Message-ID: <101110001@hpcvlx.HP.COM>
Date: 30 Dec 88 18:19:20 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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I, as well as many (well some) others am looking to expand my A1000.
One of the more promising SCSI interfaces I have seen advertised is the one
from M.A.S.T. that uses the centronics port.  It's even fairly cheap,
$600 for 40M complete, formatted and ready to fly.  
  So my question is,
has anybody got one of these, or heard of somebody who does, or read a
magazine review (I'll buy the mag, I just need a pointer)?  Are there
reservations or concerns about the parallel port for a disk interface,
with a printer also on the port?  Can it be as anywhere near as fast
as SCSI on the bus expander using FFS?

  M.A.S.T. also has a memory box that uses 4x256(1M) RAM chips. As far
as I can find this is the only box for the 1000 to do so. Since they
require less power than 256K chips this looks like a 'good idea'.  Any
comments?

 Robert Williams robertw@hp-pcd.HP.COM
503-750-2818, Corvallis Workstation Operation