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- From: aa356@ccn.cs.dal.ca (Brian Campbell)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
- Subject: Re: Lots o'questions....
- Date: 8 Mar 1996 03:18:50 GMT
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- tHe ChEsHiRe CaT (cheshrct@teleport.com) wrote:
- : I'm thinking of getting an A500 to use as a 'net terminal, but
- : don't know anything about this funky li'l gem from Commodore. Reading the
- : posts, I am confused (and a wee bit frightened) by the variety of chips
- : (ROM, Denise, and Haggis (or whatever it's called)), a curious thing
- : called KickStart and everything else. Basically ,what should I look for
- : when getting an A500 system?
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- An Amiga 500 makes a decent VT100 terminal machine. I really would not
- worry too much about the chips, they do the same things any other compter
- does, just a little different nd usually better. Kickstart is half the OS,
- and that is a rom chip inside the A500, so it is another thing you do not
- have to worry about. the A500 pretty self contained, so all you need is
- workbench disks (the other half of the OS) and a terminal program (I like
- NComm myself) You also need a monitor (you can use a TV, but I would
- not recomend it) and an external modem. That should do it, of course
- more memory and a hard drive is always nicer, but not really needed,
- though I would not be able to live without one!
-