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- From: "robert buonincontro" <robert.buonincontro@canrem.com>
- Subject: amiga 500 discontinue
- Message-ID: <1992Sep12.4247.19571@dosgate>
- Reply-To: "robert buonincontro" <robert.buonincontro@canrem.com>
- Organization: Canada Remote Systems
- Distribution: comp
- Date: 12 Sep 92 18:12:36 EST
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- RP>Let's say you buy a 600. Then you decide "gee, a faster processor
- RP>would be nice." So you'll either have to ...
-
- RP> Buy a new Amiga.
- RP>or
- RP> Get your 600 to a service center for upgrade. But wait,
- RP> there's no service center within a 100 miles? Then you're screwed.
-
- RP>At least with a 500 I can pop open the hood and add stuff without
- RP>whipping out soldering iron.
-
- RP>Irvine? Where's Irvine? Grad student at the
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- Commodore has plans for an 030 accelerator card for the Amiga 600. There
- are also a few third party companies working on designs for accelerators.
- These accelerators will plug into the PCMIA slot. This allows for easier
- upgrading and cleaner upgrades. No more layering daughterboard after
- daughterboard the way you upgrade an Amiga 500. Commodore even has plans
- for a 386 Bridgeboard for the Amiga 600. Unlike the Atonce which plugs into
- the CPU slot. This board plugs into the trapdoor!
-
- The A600 with it's built in Harddrive and 1 meg chip expandable to 2 megs of
- chip is already better then a stock A500. The low price of $600 US also blows
- an A500 out of the water.
-
- Not to mention the A600 is just as expandable. Just because they use surface
- mounted chips does not mean it's not expandable. It just means developers
- will design new boards for use with the A600. As for motherboard upgrades.
- It's possible to upgrade an A600 buy unsoldering surface mounted chips. While
- it's not something most people can do. There are a lot of places one could
- take a motherboard to get the operation done!
-
- robert.buonincontro&canrem.com
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