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- From: copes@cs.curtin.edu.au (Simon Cope)
- Subject: Re: A1000, adding harddrive: easy/how?
- Message-ID: <copes.716099923@marsh>
- Sender: news@cujo.curtin.edu.au (News Manager)
- Organization: Curtin University of Technology
- References: <1992Sep10.013303.9810@umr.edu>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 04:38:43 GMT
- Lines: 32
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- dminer@mcs213f.cs.umr.edu (Dan Miner) writes:
-
- > I'm been searching around and may have found
- >an A1000. I've been away from the Commodore too long. :)
- >Anyway, how easy would it be to add a HD to it? I got
- >the monitor solved (my old 1702 from 64 days). It has
- >512k ram. This is really small. Any external memory
- >that doesn't cost an arm and leg? I'm a poor college student. :)
-
- Buy a second hand A590 and plug it in. It'll be back to front, but you will
- get great access to the dip swtches. It will also solve your ram problem..
- You can get one pretty cheap with 20M HD and 2M ram.
-
- >Any info on expansion in general too.. :)
- > (like floppy drives... :)
-
- Most A500 peripherals can be used, including some of the accelerators. Don't
- buy any of those trapdoor thingy's though.
-
- >Dan Miner
-
- >P.S. I love old computers (especially from Commodore, BTW anyone
- >know where I could find a working VIC-20 or PET computer?)
- >--
- > Dan Miner
- > email: dminer@cs.umr.edu
- >Computer Science
- >University of Missouri-Rolla "It all begins with a glimmer."
-
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