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- From: joewald@crl.com (Joseph Waldvogel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Upgrading my 1200 to v3.1 of OS????
- Date: 7 Apr 1996 23:39:04 GMT
- Organization: CRL Dialup Internet Access
- Message-ID: <2151.6671T976T2416@crl.com>
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- >In article <1253.6670T1004T273@crl.com>,
- >Joseph Waldvogel <joewald@crl.com> wrote:
- >>
- >>>I have an a1200 that I would like to upgrade to the 3.1 ROMs;
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- >>Your A1200 is NOT accelerated if it has a 020, that's a STOCK A1200
- >>processor, If i had a 030/040/ or a 060 THEN is would be accelerated.
- >>
- >>If you want to Upgrade to the 3.1 ROM's, Go and BUY some 3.1 A1200 Kickstart
- >>ROM's! Open your Computer, Unplug the old 3.0 Kickstart ROM's and plug in
- >>the New 3.1 Kickstart ROM's. I personally don't see any reson to do that.
- >>If you really want to spend all that Extra money for much of nothen. When
- >>3.1 Came out that was Mainly a Upgrade for all the older Non-AGA Amiga's.
- >>There are some small Improvments, You can get most by just Upgrading your
- >>Workbench to
- >>3.1 and keep using the 3.0 ROM's. I've been that way since 3.1 had come
- >>out, and have had NO problems.
-
- >Doh! I have the 3.1 disks and docs that I bought for my a2000 - I didn't
- >even think of trying them. That is what I get for spur-of-the-moment buying
- >habits -- I did no research on what I was getting - the deal just sounded
- >good when my A2000 was dieing. I will use the money I saved _not_ buying
- >the chip and look for an acelerator (and maybe a tower adapter to get some
- >space back on my desktop).
-
- >Thanks for the information
-
- Ya, If you have 3.1 for your A2000 already, No problem Installing it on your
- A1200 at all, The 3.1 Workbench disks are ALL the same the only thing that's
- differnt is the Kickstart ROM's! Ya a Accelerator Would be something to think
- about or a Hard Drive. I just got this Seagate 3.5" 1083 (formated to around
- 1033) Meg 10MS Hard Drive for Under $200 NEW! The Price for 030 accelerators
- for the A1200 are CHEAP compaired to what I payed for my GVP A1230 Terbo+
- Series 2 Accelerator, and I've stuck with these lame GVP SIMM's, Makes me sick
- at the prices for them SIMM's, Around $700 for a 16 Meg SIMM, Like 5 times the
- price for a Standard SIMM. 060 accelerators are just TOOOOO Much, a GRAND and
- thats without any RAM, or SCSI COntroler. Think I'll wait for a PowerPC
- Board to come out, I would think it would be cheaper.
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