victor@dean.Berkeley.EDU (Victor Brueggemann) (06/27/89)
Background: Many years ago, I bought an apple //c, and later found that
expansion was nearly impossible beyond very tightly bound limits. When the
Amiga came out, I was enthralled by it's capabilities and low price. Since
I was more concerned with price than performance, I bought the A500, a neat
new toy. However, I discovered that I had made the very same mistake that I
had made with the apple //c. No room for expansion.
Question: I want to upgrade my expansion set-up, and was advised that since
many of the undercarraige-type expansions for the Amiga do not work well
with all peripheral hardware, that I should consider upgrading to a
2000/2500. Is this neccessary? (details of what I have and what I want
follow)
[current configuration]
Amiga 500
A501 expansion to 1 Meg + clock
CA-880 Half Height external 3.5" drive
Avatex 1200 modem
jury rigged Imagewriter 1 printer (conflicts with modem)
1084 Monitor
PerfectSound audio digitizer
sound in/out to stereo
[Proposed additions]
A-Max
Additional memory/Hypercard
AT BridgeCard
Room for IBM compatible memory (to 640k)
Color Printer
Memory expanded to 2.5 Megs of RAM with room for more
Ok. So do I need a bigger Amiga or is there a chassis-type expansion that
will allow me to create this system with my 500? Which would be cheaper in
the long run?
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