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- From: stkstr@krzsun.med-rz.uni-sb.de (Karsten Strueder)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Amiga 1200 Tower
- Date: 18 Jan 1996 19:59:51 GMT
- Organization: Computational Linguistics Dept., U Saarbruecken
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- ad: discussion 'bout the a1200 Eagle tower
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- >Hmmm, is it just me, or is there a good reason to be sceptical about
- >this?
- >I mean, what is now really the difference between this and buying a
- >*real* Amiga 4000?
-
- Well, they are making advertisement for about a year (not quite sure, but I'm
- waiting for a long time), and on the WOC in Cologne they only showed the board
- but did not demonstrate a working device. I've spoken to a guy frome Eagle, he
- told me the board _is_ working 100% but has problems with a few a1200-slot-
- cards because of there architecture being not close to given specifications;
- He said they are in contact with these manufacturers and try to fix this 'til
- early 1996. Another problem might still be the uneasy availability of buster
- chips as mentioned by him.
-
- I, too, cannot believe until a test of this board is published.
- But as a4k-prices are imho beyond description it is still worth a certain
- amount of hope!
- Btw, the difference is the possibility to use already bought a1200 cards or
- processor-boards cheaper then z-III equivalents, a second videoslot and the
- pcmcia-slot...
-
- <tsb>
- <sb>Karsten Strueder
- <sb>stkstr@krzsun.med-rz.uni-sb.de
- <sb>
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