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- From: Gemini2@cup.portal.com (Gary Alan Peake)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Adding a CD-Rom to my A3000
- Date: 16 Mar 1996 09:40:21 -0800
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- >In article <4hht2t$10b@hermes.cair.du.edu>, echadez@galileo.carl.org (Edward C
- h
- >adez) writes:
- >|> Greetings.
- >|>
- >|> I'm considering purchasing a CD-Rom for my Amiga3000.
- >|>
- >|> However, while I was talking to someone at Denver's only Amiga dealership,
- >|> he claimed that I would need to "spend at least a couple of hours with him
- >|> setting it up." This was because the A3000's external SCSI port was either
- >|> flakey or difficult to configure.
- >|>
- >|> Is adding a CD-Rom to an A3000 -that- difficult to do? I really don't
- >|> believe it, but I'd like to hear from fellow A3000 owners who've done it.
- >|>
- >|> Thanks in advance,
- >|>
- >|> -Ed
- >|> --
- >|> What you percieve here as opinions aren't readily shared by those I work fo
- r
- >.
- >|> Edward Chadez, Lead Senior Programmer/Analyst at CARL Corporation
- >|> When web surfing, visit Galileo's Universe at http://galileo.carl.org/
- >|> Amiga user since 1988. Internet surfer since 1989. Grow up, not old.
- >
- >
- >Hello Edward,
- >
- >I have added an external cdrom drive to my a3000 with no problem what so ever.
- .
- >.
- >
- >and it took only 30 seconds to do!!
- >
- >donnie
- >del@cais.com
- >del@lfs.loral.com
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- The Reno cd rom drive plugged right in and has worked like a charm! Never a
- problem (even with the old Buster, etc).
-
- Gary Peake "Mystic Meg" Fellow AMIGA Users:
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