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- Path: prairienet.org!claevius
- From: claevius@prairienet.org (Brent Busby)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: CyberStorm -- need help from British Amiga user
- Date: 20 Feb 1996 21:17:53 GMT
- Organization: Prairienet, the East-Central Illinois Free-Net
- Message-ID: <4gddq1$6u1@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- Summary: CyberStorm is a BIG card. Too big.
- Keywords: "that big card" :-)
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-
- I have an Amiga-3000 Tower '040 system with the stock A3640 Commodore 68040
- accelerator, and I am trying to upgrade my system to accept the CyberStorm
- card with all of its available extras included -- SIMMs, SCSI-II, high
- speed buffered extra serial port, and ethernet. Problem is, I am told
- that will the I/O module connected, the board becomes so tall that it
- will not fit in an A3000T without first removing the vertical drive bays
- to make room for it (blech -- I'm a bridgeboard user -- I *like* my drive
- bays, thank you...), and I also understand that it will not fit inside the
- tiny case of the A3000D at all. That bites.
-
- So how can a British Amiga user help me? Well, I see here in Amiga Magazine
- from November that a dealership in the UK called Gordon Harwood Computers is
- expecting the release of a CyberStorm board version made for A3000 users, and
- they say "ask for details about A3000 compatibility, too"... I've heard from
- other Internet users about this, supposed to be called the "Mark II" version
- of the board. I'd like more information on it, and I'm sure it'd be very
- useful to a lot of other comp.sys.amiga.hardware users as well....
-
- And ... the dealership doesn't mention any email address. It'd be a
- trans-Atlantic phonecall for me to call them (it's 01-773-836781, for
- any that'd like to help...), but I'd greatly appreciate it if any Amiga
- users living in the UK could call and find out what they can about the
- Mark II, and pass on whatever information is available about it to
- comp.sys.amiga.hardware. Thanks in advance, in case anyone decides
- to go ahead and do this.....
-
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- 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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