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- From: datakompaniet@interlink.no (DataKompaniet)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Phase-5 Vaporware; Maybe Warp Engine Better?
- Date: 2 Apr 1996 13:47:43 GMT
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- Sender: torrunes@idt.unit.no (Tor Rune Skoglund)
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- In article <4jnptt$6gd@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>, claevius@firefly.prairienet.org (Brent Busby) writes:
- |>
- |> : Yes, the Apollo 3060/3040/4040/4060 supports EDRAMs.
- |>
- |> How easy is it to buy this? I know it will be expensive memory, but
- |> how hard is it to get EDRAM...? (And how expensive is it?)
-
- Easy to buy? Just have a look at our WWW pages. You can order
- from any good Amiga dealer or from us by fax, email, phone, letter
- or whatever. :-)
-
- EDRAM is quite hard to get. I have checked a couple of local
- memory distributors, but none had in stock at the moment.
- The price was ~ 4X ordinary SIMM price.
-
- |> : The A3040/3060/4040/4060 is basically the same board, the 30x0 boards
-
- |> I have an A3000T. I've heard about how you have to remove your vertical
- |> drive bay mounts if you wanted to put a Mark-I CyberStorm with the I/O
- |> Module in an A3000T (and how it wouldn't fit at all in the A3000D), but
- |> how would an Apollo fit in there? Would I be able to use the 4060 version
- |> of the board in an A3000T without having to do a hacksaw job on by drive
-
- The manual includes installation instructions for A3000T specifically,
- for the A3040/3060.
- I do not know how the A4000 version would fit in A3000_T_... Sorry.
- (I`ve never seen an 3000T up here! :)
-
- |> bays? And how is it on stability (CPU stability with the '060, SCSI
- |> protocol conformance, memory problems...??)?
-
- Stabolity seems to be very good.
- For the SCSI part, the manual says that Quantum Fireball and
- Empire series do not work properly. Also the Artec(?) SCSI scanner
- is not supported.
-
- |> : th marked since January. It is also possible to buy a 040-version and
- |> : upgrade it to 060 later. The same board has a socket which can take
- |> : 060 too.
- |> Sounds great! So all I need to know is whether the 4060 version will fit
- |> okay in an A3000T and whether the CPU, memory, and SCSI subsystems of the
- |> board are stable in real world use... Any comments anyone...?
-
- All I can say, it that our Apollo 30x0/40x0 customers seem to be
- very happy with the board. In our office, we have an A2000 with
- an Apollo 2030 at 50 MHz, and this machine stays on 24 hours a
- day. It is one of the most stable Amigas I`ve ever used.
-
- Btw, we have now dropped the prices for the Apollo 30x0/40x0 series
- a lot. Prices can be found on our WWW server.
-
- Also the Apollo 1240 is available shortly, and the Apollo 1260
- is supposed to be out in 8 weeks from now.
-
- - Best Regards,
-
- Tor Rune Skoglund DataKompaniet as
- Tech. Manager/Partner Trondheim Innovation Centre
- Tel: +47 7354 0375 N-7030 Trondheim
- Fax: +47 7394 3861 Norway
- E-mail: datakompaniet@interlink.no
- WWW: http://www.interlink.no/datakompaniet
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