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- From: claevius@prairienet.org (Brent Busby)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: CyberStorm in A3000T-040 -- <REPOST> Help!
- Date: 29 Jan 1996 06:36:06 GMT
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- I hate to quote myself (it's perverted, I know...), but I needed some
- help on this. So I'm reposting my previous post that I didn't get any
- reply to. Any help on these questions would be very much appreciated.
-
-
- Brent Busby (claevius@prairienet.org) wrote:
- : I am preparing to buy a CyberStorm accelerator for my A3000T-040. I have
- : heard that it is now officially possible to use one in an A3000 desktop.
- : I have an A3000 *tower*; this makes my prospects *better*, right? (I'm
- : assuming that since I've got more room in there than a desktop user, that
- : I'd be at less of a risk. Is this true? Will a CyberStorm *fit* okay in
- : an Amiga-3000 tower?) Also, are there any hardware conflicts? I know the
- : accelerator slot of an A3000 is almost identical electrically to that in
- : an A4000, but still, are there any known hardware problems there?
-
- : Another thing I wonder about is, since I'm planning to get the SCSI-II
- : and I/O expansion options, what form physically do these expansions
- : come in? If I get the I/O expansion, do I still need to get the SCSI,
- : or is that included? Are they on piggyback daughterboards? Zorro
- : cards? (Hopefully not more than one of the two are Zorro cards; I can
- : only spare one more slot...)
-
- : And finally, I heard rumors that the 68060.library was buggy on some
- : floating point trig functions, causing certain fractal programs to
- : behave abnormally? Is this true, and if so, was it ever fixed? (I
- : heard this a long time ago, not long after the introduction of the
- : board.)
-
- : Do you think this is a good idea, or would I be better off with a
- : Warp Engine and a straightjacket?
-
- --
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