page@ulowell.UUCP (Bob Page) (12/06/85)
[] > Sure wish I had a REAL editor on my amiga. Now that I have had some > [...] > useful. Still, when the memory expansion box becomes available, maybe > -Fred I have been using LSE, the Lattice Screen Editor. It's not bad ... has two buffers (windows), primitive keyboard macros and a semi-customizable command set. The thing I find most useful is the C error mode. You put your file in one window and the output of the compiler (when you get errors) in the other. Typing the F2 key highlights the 'next' error message and positions you at the offending line in your file. It sure beats ED, I'll tell ya. I called Tecmar sales this morning; they quoted me US$799 for the T-card with 256KB and US$999 for the T-card with 1MB. The T-disk will be US$1495. Both will be available "at the end of this month." The other two periphs (tape, modem) are due around Jan and Feb, respectively. ..Bob -- ----- UUCP: decvax!wanginst!ulowell!page Bob Page ARPA: page@ulowell.CSNET University of Lowell BIX: page Computer Science Dept VOX: +1 617 452 5000 x2233 Lowell MA 01854 USA "It's a sky blue sky. Satellites are out tonight." -- Laurie Anderson
kim@mips.UUCP (Kim DeVaughn) (12/10/85)
[ ... ] > I called Tecmar sales this morning; they quoted me US$799 for the T-card > with 256KB and US$999 for the T-card with 1MB. The T-disk will be US$1495. In order to use the hard-disk, one must *also* have the T-card (with or w/o RAM), or so I have been told. Lesee, that makes a Tecmar H.D. somewhere around $2000-$2500 ... on a $1295 base machine ... Ridiculous! I have also heard (i.e., this is a *rumor* from someone doing a Beta test) that the access time for this H.D. is only about twice the access time for the floppys. SLOW! Tecmar may be the 1st people to get peripherials out for the Amiga ... I think I'll wait for some competition. BTW, there is an outfit in Texas (sorry, don't have the name handy) that is making a battery-backed-up clock for the Amiga; it's supposed to sit on the RS-232 port "transparently", is available NOW, and is about $40 thru 12/31/85. The same people have stated they will have a 2 Meg board in Jan ... upgradeable to 8 Megs as soon as 1 Mbit chips are available in quantity (I *think* I heard ~$1000 for this board). With all the h/w development going on, I hope that SOMEONE comes out with a well designed Expansion Box soon. I'm not fond of the idea of adding "sidecar" after "sidecar" to the Amiga. Seems much more natural, not to mention less expensive, to just buy cards, and plug 'em in. Also, an Expansion Box would have proper terminators for the bus (low noise), power supply, etc. Best place for this to come from (initially, anyway) is Commodore-Amiga ... to ensure that the bus is correctly defined (CAN YOU HEAR ME, CBM ... HINT HINT)! /kim -- UUCP: {decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!decwrl!mips!kim DDD: 415-960-1200 USPS: MIPS Computer Systems Inc, 1330 Charleston Rd, Mt View, CA 94043