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From: blgardne@esunix.UUCP (Blaine Gardner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Bare A2620
Message-ID: <1291@esunix.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jun 89 17:35:18 GMT
References: <4279@crash.cts.com>
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
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From article <4279@crash.cts.com>, by ferg@pnet01.cts.com (John Ferguson):
> joe@bryans.scc.com writes:
>>> If you can tell me where I can purchase a A2620 without having to buy a
>>> A2500, I would be happy to NOT TRADE IN MY A2000! (arg!!!)...  However,

>>I've seen A2620 boards for Amiga 2000's for sale in the local Amiga computer
>>stores for under $2000. 
 
> Why would you want to pay $2000 for it when you could get a complete 2500 for
> $3300 mail order? 

I'm rather surprised at all this noise about the A2620 being
unavailable, and costing $2000. I ordered one from CompuAbility last week
and  it arrived yesterday (8 days including the holiday). It was $1349
including shipping, which was the best price of half a dozen mailorder
places I talked to that all claimed to have the A26020 in stock.

The A2620 works great, I'm very impressed with it (thanks Dave !) The
only problem I had was pretty trivial: the card was just a bit too long,
and the metal plate that screws to the back of the computer hung up on
the RF shielding above the RS-232 connector. A little wiggling, prying,
and cussing got it in though.

Now how about some pointers to software that I can't live without now
that I've got a 2620? :-) (I've got SetCPU 1.4 already, thanks again to
Dave for the FastROM option.)



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