robert@sri-spam.UUCP (12/07/87)
Last year I was thinking of buying a 1000 (when it was the only
Amiga available), but I held off because of the numberous guru
errors, and the fact that the OS still hadn't been committed to
ROM. Then the 500 and 2000 came out.
Almost having succombed to sales pressure last night and purchased
a 500 (mercifully they were out of stock), I figure that I should
get some info before leaping into a purchase.
It is my understanding that the 500 has OS 1.2 in ROM. Questions;
is it likely that any future OS releases will be 'chip upgradeable'?
Is upgrading something that any reasonably competant person at home
could do (or is a maintenance contract a good idea)? Does the 2000
also have the 1.2 OS in ROM?
Initially my use of the Amiga will be limited to text editing, use
of applications like Dpaint, and maybe some C programming to play
with graphics. Which is the best choice, a 500, a 1000, or a
2000? Right now I'm leaning towards the 500 with 1 meg of RAM;
does anyone know of problems (memory limitations, ?) using the
500 with, say, WordPerfect? Is an extra external floppy disk drive
worth it to a beginning user such as myself?
Thanks much for any responses!
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