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- From: Roger_Nordin@atb.bbs.bad.se (Roger Nordin)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Moving 500 to 1200, BAD NEWS
- Message-ID: <OD.6badnetOA92-901-302p0_52d17c75@piraya.bad.se>
- Date: Wed, 4 Nov 92 06:20:37 +0000
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- > If I had gone the PC route, and started with an 8088, I could have taken my
- > SIMMS and SCSI all the way up through '286, 386 and 486.
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- Take your 8-bit SCSI card (you most probably would have a MFM ST-412/506
- controller for your 8088 system anyways) and the probably too slow and small
- RAM chips (not to mention that you problably did not buy SIMMs for the 8088
- motherboard in the first place) over to a 386+ machine, are you really serious?
-
- > I guess the cheapest option to protect my current
- > hardware is to go the PC route.
-
- You can forget about your SIMMs, unless you happen to have ones with parity
- bits. Else they won't work in a typical PC setup. I am pretty sure your
- Dataflyer will not work in a PC either.
-
- > years time when they next round of machine's are announced? You'll
- > probably find that all your 1200 peripherals won't work.
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- Most probably, considering that most cards will be connecting to the 150-pin
- A1200-only CPU slot. The only way to get some protection is to get a machine
- with Zorro slots, and Zorro slots costs too much for a real low-end machine.
- It's part of the price you pay for low-end machines.
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