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- From: charles@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Charles Loader)
- Subject: Re: RISC OS 3.10
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.105812.22152@morgan.ucs.mun.ca>
- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
- References: <9209040307.AA18976@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 10:58:12 GMT
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- In article <9209040307.AA18976@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> lithgow@usl.com (Malcolm Lithgow) writes:
- >I'm reading these messages of people with RO 3.10 upgrades and slowly
- >getting greener and greener.
- >
- >I've already asked this once, but no-one replied so I'll try again:
- >
- >Can the #30 upgrades for the older machines (I have an A440) be fitted
- >by someone other than a dealer? Can they be mail ordered? What are
- >they? (Alternatively, does someone know of an Acorn dealer in Tokyo. ;->)
- >
- >Also, which is the better buy for (primarily) controlling a 200MB hard
- >disk -- a SCSI card or an IDE card?
- >
- >Are there IDE cards that also have an HD floppy interface that either
- >(a) can use the RO3.1 drivers or (b) has RO3.1 compatible drivers?
- >
- >I hope someone will deign to answer these simple questions this time.
- >
- >-Malcolm. lithgow@usl.com These are merely my questions.
-
- I (in Newfoundland) would also like to upgrade my 310 but will have to
- stay with the present OS if it means shipping the machine to the UK or
- to Toronto.
-
- How about a comment from Acorn?
-
- Charles
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