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From: ridder@elvira.enet.dec.com (Hans Ridder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A1000 SOTS scsi harddrive controller sought
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Date: 2 Mar 90 00:18:43 GMT
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In article <4341@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> barrett@jhunix.UUCP (Dan Barrett) writes:
>In article <753@shodha.dec.com> ridder@elvira.enet.dec.com (Hans Ridder) writes:
>>[Begin Opinion]
>>What the 1000 (and 500) needs is a well designed expansion chassis.
>>With bus buffers, arbitration, and everything.  Not those cheesey
>>"connectors in a box" type things that Phoenix/Expansion Technologies
>>is peddling....
>
>	Gee, wasn't that what ASDG was building:  the "2000-and-1" expansion
>box?  I think it never came out, due to lack of consumer interest (!) or
>some such reason.

Yes, it was being called the '2000 and 1'.  It had 5 Zorro II slots, a
coprocessor slot, and as I remember, most of a video slot.  Basically,
it had most of the stuff to make a 1000 into a 2000.  It was large (12
inches wide?), and it cost too much ($999?).

After promising it Real Soon Now for quite a while, they asked how
many people would buy it for an even higher price ($1200?), and didn't
get enough responses.  It didn't make any sense to spend that kind of
money when you could get a real 2000 for less money on the "original"
trade-in deal.

In my opinion, they were trying to do too much in it.  Trying to be
all things to all people.  I think that many people would have been
happy with 3-5 Zorro II slots and a power supply in a box.  I know I
would have.

>                                                        Dan

-hans
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