phoenix@ms.uky.edu (R'ykandar Korra'ti) (08/12/90)
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A friend of mine who is here from England has a chance to buy an old
Amiga 500 (1 meg RAM, old chip set), 1070 monitor, and gobs of software
for $375. There is no question that this is a very good deal. (Actually,
now that I think about it, it may have an external floppy too. However,
that's relevant.)
Questions:
1) This A500 was manufactured in West Germany - we think. It
is also of an elderly vintage. I understand some of the oldest 500/2000
models used the A1000 chipset and are therefore not capable of using
the "new" chipset. If so, how can we tell (by, say looking at the
motherboard) whether this is the case here?
2) He will want to take it back to England. This leads to the
obvious power question. We can purchase power level converters of appropriate
amperage for the system; however, there is still the question of 50Mhz vs.
60 Mhz power sources. The converters we can find locally do not convert this
frequency. Is this a problem?
3) If this is an A1000 chipset machine, NTSC vs. PAL will be a
problem once he starts buying European-made software. How much of a problem
is this problem when dealing with productivity software? (He doesn't care
about games.) How much does it cost to swap to a PAL Agnus in England?
I think that's it. Please reply via netmail; I've redirected Followups
to my mailbox. Than! If there is interest, I will post a summary...
- R'ykandar.
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