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- From: marsh@gwdgv1.gwdg.de
- Subject: Re: Falcon030 vs. Falcon040
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- References: <10232@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 17:30:01 GMT
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- In article <10232@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>, warwick@cs.uq.oz.au (Warwick Allison) writes:
- >With the price of a Falcon030 at $800, the best option is to buy an 030 as
- >soon as possible, beef it up with whatever monitor, memory and harddisk you
- >can afford, then upgrade to an 040 if needed later - you'll only be losing
- >on the $800 - everything else would be re-usable on the 040 (one would assume).
- >So, you sell your 030 for $500 to the neighbor to hook up to a TV and play
- >the cool games (which the brat has been playing ever since you bought
- >the 030). $300 loss, max - and who knows, you may find the 16MHz 030 quite
- >sufficient - after all you've gotten along fine with a machine with one
- >quarter of the abilities for some time now, probably without a blitter.
- >
- >I've already bought my hard-disk for the Falcon (okay, so I lose a bit
- >more, because I had to buy an ICD interface to use it for now on my ST),
- >so only memory and monitor are concerns (I wish now that I'd bought a
- >Multi-sync rather than my colour monitor!).
- >
- >
- >--
- >Warwick
- >--
- > _-_|\ warwick@cs.uq.oz.au /Disclaimer:
- > / * <-- Computer Science Department, /
- > \_.-._/ University of Queensland, / void (if removed)
- > v Brisbane, Australia. /
- Agreed with every single word of what you wrote!
-
- Tibor.
-
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