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- From: efp90@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Pritchard EF)
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- Subject: Re: A1200
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- Date: 23 Nov 92 17:03:55 GMT
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- In <1992Nov17.054911.1372@sol.cs.wmich.edu> 22black@sol.cs.wmich.edu (Martin Black) writes:
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- >ma90gjp@cen.ex.ac.uk writes:
-
- >>I've just seen a review of the amiga 1200 in Amiga Format, and am seriously
- >>considering upgrading from my A500. I also have a GVP hard drive, is there
- >>any way to connect it up to a A1200, or if not will there be any hard drives
- >>coming out for the new machine.
- >>Also, will my midi interface and my second disk drive work on it?
-
- >Well there is an ide controller built in all a1200, of course that means you
- >can't use your scsi drive, and there aren't any connectors that would accept
- >gvp hard drive side slot. But there is a bottom slot with a knock out panel
- >in the back of the a1200 that can be used to add 4mb of 32bit mem, and a
- >scsi controller, in which the scsi connector would go to the knock out panel.
- >Yet such a beast hasn't been released yet. And you would have to get an
- >external case for your scsi drives. As for your midi and second drive they
- >will work fine. And there is one more expansion that comes with the a1200.
- >That is a pcmcia slot, which can be used for memory for starters, but I have
- >seen modems and even an ethernet cards that have been made for pc's. I am
- >not positive those will work but it should. I have convinced my parents to
- >buy an a1200 for my little brother. And myself I am waiting until I raise
- >the money for an a4000.
-
- Just get a 2.5" IDE hard drive, and stick it in the space provided... I
- just got mine today, took me 5 Mins to install (even though the Install3.0
- disk I had was corrupted: I forgot to run SetUpHD first, and a write to the
- disk corrupted the free sectors <sigh>), and it really flys! 5 seconds
- to boot up (once the system checks itself) and a power whine to put a
- Porsche to shame!
-
-
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- E.F.Pritchard ///
- efp90@uk.ac.soton.ecs \\\/// Amiga I seriously need something
- University of Southampton \xx/ to go on this side of my
- England. signature, any ideas?
-