wdao@girtab.usc.edu (Walter Dao) (03/24/91)
I have seen the "thing" at the local store. It might be full of extra feature and nice little gadgets but what an UGLY thing. It looks like something out of a frankenstein movie. With this thing on, the computer looks bulky and doesnt have the Sleek edge look. *yuck* I'd rather go for somthing like the Amiga 1500 expansion. THIS is a sleek I/o expander. Walter
fsadl@acad3.alaska.edu (LOOMIS ANDREW D) (03/25/91)
In article <16062@chaph.usc.edu>, wdao@girtab.usc.edu (Walter Dao) writes... > >I have seen the "thing" at the local store. It might be full of extra feature >and nice little gadgets but what an UGLY thing. It looks like something out of >a frankenstein movie. With this thing on, the computer looks bulky and doesnt >have the Sleek edge look. *yuck* >I'd rather go for somthing like the Amiga 1500 expansion. THIS is a sleek >I/o expander. > > Walter Is tehre an Amiga 1500 expansion? I haven't heard about one. Where can i get the info? Andrew Loomis Bitnet: FSADL@ALASKA Internet: FSADL@ACAD3.ALASKA.EDU Never have so many owed so much to so few. -Winston Churchill He must have been thinking of our liquor bills. -An unidentified RAF pilot
sysop@tlvx.UUCP (SysOp) (03/30/91)
In article <16062@chaph.usc.edu>, wdao@girtab.usc.edu (Walter Dao) writes: > > I have seen the "thing" at the local store. It might be full of extra feature > and nice little gadgets but what an UGLY thing. It looks like something out of .... > I'd rather go for somthing like the Amiga 1500 expansion. THIS is a sleek > I/o expander. > > Walter Is this available in the US? (Why do I think it was a European thing?) The April '91 .info has a picture of an A500 expansion by Pre'Spect called Avant. It looks pretty nice (maybe like a larger A1000), and gives you a detachable keyboard. Personally, I would resort to any measure to have a detachable keyboard; luckily, I have an A1000. :-) (I know this comment should be in .advocacy, but GEESH, is it that hard to have an A500 with a detachable keyboard? I mean, I know it's built to be low cost, but, it seems like it'd be sooo much nicer, even if you left the internal floppy, side expansion port, and everything just the way it is. Just have the keyboard pull out. Hey, it could even snap into place on the main unit if desired. :-) I know someone will say that I don't understand how much more complicated and expensive it will be to have such a thing, but if it weren't too much, wouldn't it have a better image? Also, I seem to remember seeing a detachable keyboard unit for the C-64; I wish I could remember, but I think it was fairly inexpensive. I really hated trying to pull my C-64 closer, and dragging several cables along with it. I wouldn't worry about plugging tons of stuff into those side ports, provided I could push it to the back and pull the keyboard forward. Of course, I've long since stopped using the C-64, so now that I see the handy expansion, I don't need it. But you get the idea. :-) -- Gary Wolfe, SYSOP of the Temporal Vortex BBS // Amiga! ..uflorida!unf7!tlvx!sysop, unf7!tlvx!sysop@bikini.cis.ufl.edu \X/ Yeah!