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- From: olavka@ifi.uio.no (Olav Lur}s Kalgraf)
- Subject: Re: A1200, a few questions
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.090148.5230@ifi.uio.no>
- Sender: olavka@ifi.uio.no (Olav Lur}s Kalgraf)
- Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
- References: <1992Nov4.110300.25747@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 09:01:48 GMT
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- Originator: olavka@sognsvann.ifi.uio.no
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- In article <1992Nov4.110300.25747@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, sallen@nyx.cs.du.edu (Steve Allen) writes:
- >
- > Hi all,
- >
- > Just afew things that I have wbeen wondering about
- >
- > 1. So the disk drive is old 880K, not good news. As I have had a play
- > with the new ma hine, I can state that the Workbench floppies are
- > all 880K, so it looks unlikely that there is a High Density drive
- > lurking there.
-
- The workbench disks on my A4000 were 880k also, do I have to say more?
- Try reading some HD PC disks or something like that.
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- >
- > 2. Monitors. With your old CBM monitor (1084) etc you do not get
- > any new graphics modes above ECS. Except for the increase in colour.
- > There is now way of getting more than 512 lines deep (pal).
- > Also the flicker is as bad as ever. So add to the cost a multisync
- > monitor.
-
- Once you've paid for that multisync monitor you will discover that
- it was the buy of a lifetime. Productivity workbench rules!!
-
- >
- > 3. Memory . Is there any space to put SIMMS on the Motherboard, or
- > have I got to buy a new trapdoor expaNSION.
- >
- > I now have Aibb v5 so I shall test the A1200 with this, for comparison
- > with my earlier tests with SYSinfo.. No chanche of fast ram yet, sorry.
- >
- > Ant.
- >
- > pm3ah@sunc.sheffield.ac.uk (please not to above e-mail)
- >
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