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- From: J_Plewka@Amtrash.comlink.de (Joern Plewka)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: A4000's with High Density Drives!
- Date: 20 Jan 96 01:18:55 +0100
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- ajackson@alladin.demon.co.uk (Action Jackson) -> "Re: A4000's with High Density Drives!"
- (12.01.1996)
-
- > Please dont give us DD floppys. They are absolutly useless.
- Every floppy is nearly useless in concept..
-
- Cant read
- > MAC data (ShapeShifter). Virtually all PC floppys are HD thus cant
- > transfer PC data.
- An A1200 with parallel cable is portable...no argument for it.
- If you really need a floppy go and buy a 2.8MB SCSI drive...it`s
- extremly fast and extremly...
-
- > 1)
- > A1400 (and dont call it A1300 or A1200+) should be in a pizza box. No
- > trap door but have the CPU on a daughter board (allowing easy upgrade
- > even to PPC). MC68030 at 28 or 33 Mhz. AGA is fine (Its only an
- > intermediate/beginners machine).
- 68ec40-25MHz 3.3V for $90 up to 68040-25 for $3xx maybe 060 later...
- They have to do a chipset for the 060-turbo...why not use it?
- Ram controller included etc.
-
- Bootable CD-ROM drive. Space
- > internally for 3.5" HD. Proper detached keyboard (small A4000 type
- > connector). Simm Sockets on the mother board. 2xPCMCIA-II at real
- > (allowing people to add Modem, SCSI or Ethernet easily).
-
- One or Two
- > Zorro/Video Slots (if costs allow but not a pre-requisits as we would
- > have two PCMCIA). {Zorro should be phased out in favour of PCI for the
- > PCC platforms). 2Mb Chip RAM. 2Mb Fast RAM. Connectors at back: Video,
- > Par, Ser, Mouse, Joystick, Floppy, 2x PCMCIA, Keyboard, Left & Right
- > Audio out. Mono Audio In (it is a Multimedia Machine). Initally sell
- > bundled with monitor.
- That`s to much this times, IMHO. And not inteligent with 68k...
-
- > 3)
- > A4000T. Yes we need a high end machine. Again drop the Floppy and put
- > in the CD-ROM. Drop the IDE interface. It will clean up the ROM and
- > make space for improvements.
-
- Costs for IDE are $7...why remove it?! ISA-Slots, Ramsey, DMAC and
- mainboardmemory got useless. There should be enough room for an additional
- 968 or so...the AGA is nearly useless this time.
- Another idea would be a new CPU board with GFX, place of a DSP
- like 56002 or "56300" or C80;-)..with access to gfx and cpu memory;-)))).
-
- Ok, it`s not a very small board...
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