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- From: humenuk@bnr.ca (Gary Humenuk)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: what to do with a1000?
- Date: 8 Jan 1996 22:37:43 GMT
- Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
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- In article <4c9dg1$s2f@knot.queensu.ca>, 4byc@qlink.queensu.ca (Chung Barron Y) writes:
- |> what can i do with my a1000 besides use it as a paperweight?
- |>
- |> byc
-
- We use ours to play games, process words, mess with pretty pictures, dial
- in to work or play. I often use mine as an auxiliary machine.
- My brother's family use one as their main machine.
- My mother likes hers so much, she doesn't want to upgrade. (Of course,
- she has 8.5 meg ram.)
-
- A great deal of excellent public domain software works just fine.
- It will run almost anything an A500 will run (and the few things I found that
- won't run are so badly written, I refuse to run them on my A500 or A3000
- either.) There are a number of things that need a 6020 or higher cpu so
- need an A3000 or an acellerator. This is not too big a problem for any
- but a power user.
-
- Mine is an A1000 with 2 meg ram and Supra 4x4 with 200 meg hard drive
- and CD rom. It runs AmigaDos 2.1 (with a Multistart Kickstart elimiator)
- quite nicely.
-
- My mother's has a GVP500 HD-8 with hard drive and 8 meg of ram. Quite a
- few A500 peripherals work on the A1000 (plugged in right side up on the
- right end rather than the left like the A500.)
- --
- ..............
- BNR is BNR and I is me. BNR will let you know when I get to speak for it.
- Gary Humenuk
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