Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!leah!rpi!rpi.edu!kudla From: kudla@pawl.rpi.edu (Robert J. Kudla) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Two questions. Keywords: Big hard drives, color bitmap printing. Message-ID: Date: 4 May 89 12:04:52 GMT Sender: usenet@rpi.edu Distribution: usa Organization: RPI Public Access Workstation Lab, Troy NY Lines: 34 Hi. I've got an Amiga 500, the extra half-meg, and the lone internal drive. Developing on such a system is a very unpleasant proposition, though it can be done with some difficulty (don't even start, Deven). Such a system is also less than optimal for running a bulletin board, which is and always has been one of my main purposes in owning a computer. Now, what I'd like to know is: What is there in terms of hard disk storage (of 60 Meg or more- I don't even want to hear about 20 Meg drives, as I'd fill those up in a day) for the 500? Would I be better off buying a random card cage and getting a 2000 HardCard (in which case I'd like info on those as well)? What can I expect to pay all told in order to have a 60M development environment? Note also that I eventually want to go MIDI (my synthesizers are very lonely) and hopefully obtain a Digiview system..... I don't know if those take up the expansion slot or what, but I could see it causing problems. My other question: In a copy of Info I had a few months ago and subsequently lost, there was a mention in one of those "We went to such and such a show" articles about a firm in California which will take an IFF (or was it PostScript? Can't remember) bitmap and print it out in color and blow it up to a maximum of something like 4x6'. Has anyone dealt with these people, or does anyone know their pricing or any other limitations? I haven't seen diddly about them on the net. At the very least, I'd like their address or phone so I can get more info from them. Any clues out there? Thanks a lot. -- Robert Jude Kudla Pi-Rho America \\ /// "Shooting stars never stop, 2346 15th St. \\ /// even when they reach the top." Troy, NY 12180 /X\ \\\/// keywords: mike oldfield yes u2 r.e.m. new order (518)271-8624 // \\ \XX/ steely dan f.g.t.h. kate bush .....and even Rush