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- From: bmontgom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Byron Montgomerie)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: The March Amiga?
- Date: 11 Jan 1996 18:43:01 GMT
- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
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- John Hendrikx (john.hendrikx@grafix.xs4all.nl) wrote:
- : AR> Sometimes it comes to my mind that you guys are sitting on your brains.
- : AR> So please think first then write it down.
-
- : I think he's right here, although I would settle for a A1200 style case with a
- : cheap and easy way to upgrade it to a standard tower/pizza casing with
- : detacheable keyboard provided by AT themselves.
-
- Exactly. I would go for the mid tower case myself. The current a1200
- motherboard would require a full tower case (riddiculous) because of the
- dimensions. Basically, design the montherboard for a mid tower case then
- design the shielding and plastic case around the motherboard. In any case the
- motherboard has to be standardised to one size, it may as well be the same as
- the PC size. Put an extra ide connector on it, allow for pads near the ports
- so they can be wired out to the tower case, ditto with the relavent keyboard
- lines. Actually, I would prefer that AT dropped the custom keyboards and used
- PC ones, there are some nice ones out there.
-
- : You get what you pay for, take a good long look at the current line of A1200's.
- : They really put decent Amiga's and decent Computers in general to shame (ie,
- : no monitor, no hd, dd-drive, only 2 MB, no fast graphics, 8-bit sound, no VGA
- : plug standard, crappy powersupply, etcetera...). When you sum it all up the
- : A1200 is very expensive. People buy it because it seems cheap due the absolute
- : lower price, but when you put things into perspective it isn't so cheap at all.
-
- Amen. :)
-
- Regards,
-
- BM
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