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- On 14 Feb 1996, Jason Compton wrote:
-
- > Paul Chan (paul) wrote:
- >
- > : >Except that it's been cancelled, to be replaced by something else which
- > : >there will (according to my sources at AT) hopefully be a prototype of in
- > : >March.
- >
- > : This is the first I`ve heard of this. However, if it is true, then AT have
- > : meade a sensible move. From what I`ve heard of the A1200Plus, the price they
- > : were quoting seemed to be too much again for what appeared to be an A1200 with
- > : very minor modifications.
- >
- > : Is this prototype going to be available by Xmas? If so, are they making it a
- > : PPC machine?
- >
- > I would hope that it will be available by Christmas.
- >
- > AT themselves are unsure what the machine will wind up being, its design
- > has been outsourced to another firm. From the best indications
- > available, it will be a slot-box machine with AGA. No, not PowerPC, they
- > wouldn't have a chance of being done by then, as they are only now having
- > joint meetings with Motorola and Phase5.
-
- So what guidelines did they pass on to this other firm, they must have
- some idea.
-
- Will the slots be Z3 or PCI?
-
- IMHO putting the guts of a 1200 (with faster CPU of course) on a
- motherboard that can fit in a standard PC desktop case would be a good
- idea...
-
- And how come we haven't heard from someone at AT about this (Gilles Bourdin
- doesn't seem to be doing much PR lately...)
-
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