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- Path: prairienet.org!claevius
- From: claevius@prairienet.org (Brent Busby)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: CyberStorm in A3000T-040
- Date: 28 Jan 1996 07:31:54 GMT
- Organization: Prairienet, the East-Central Illinois Free-Net
- Message-ID: <4ef8pa$apr@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- Summary: Is it a dumb idea? Am I insane? Would you like to be to? :-)
- Keywords: accelerator, A3000, 060, crazy
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- I am preparing to buy a CyberStorm accelerator for my A3000T-040. I have
- heard that it is now officially possible to use one in an A3000 desktop.
- I have an A3000 *tower*; this makes my prospects *better*, right? (I'm
- assuming that since I've got more room in there than a desktop user, that
- I'd be at less of a risk. Is this true? Will a CyberStorm *fit* okay in
- an Amiga-3000 tower?) Also, are there any hardware conflicts? I know the
- accelerator slot of an A3000 is almost identical electrically to that in
- an A4000, but still, are there any known hardware problems there?
-
- Another thing I wonder about is, since I'm planning to get the SCSI-II
- and I/O expansion options, what form physically do these expansions
- come in? If I get the I/O expansion, do I still need to get the SCSI,
- or is that included? Are they on piggyback daughterboards? Zorro
- cards? (Hopefully not more than one of the two are Zorro cards; I can
- only spare one more slot...)
-
- And finally, I heard rumors that the 68060.library was buggy on some
- floating point trig functions, causing certain fractal programs to
- behave abnormally? Is this true, and if so, was it ever fixed? (I
- heard this a long time ago, not long after the introduction of the
- board.)
-
- Do you think this is a good idea, or would I be better off with a
- Warp Engine and a straightjacket?
-
- --
- Amiga /// | | "They had a glow-in-the-dark
- 040 /// | Brent Busby ("Sequencer") | Santa in their yard. Santa
- \\\/// | claevius@prairienet.org | isn't radioactive, is he?
- \XX/ | | Cool beans. Nuclear Santa."
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