debotton@pilot.njin.net (Leonard Debotton) (04/05/91)
So, how come the 32 bit chipset is 6 years late!!! :) :) Just kidding...I've been reading a few articles every once in awhile regarding an Amiga somewhere between the Amiga 500 & the 2000, so let me pose a few suggestions... 1. Those PC Tower cases which are advertised every month in Computer Shopper seem to be big enough (and cheap enough) that someone could probably fit an Amiga 500 motherboard (w/ room to spare) inside one of them. 2. Has anyone (yet) put together a zorro II backplane that wuld plug onto the Amiga 500's expansion bus? I'm thinking specifically of something that could be used w/ #1, so that you'd effectively have an A2000 in a tower case for less money. So, have any companies done this? Are any likely to do this? Is this a bad idea? Comments... Len
dtiberio@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio) (04/08/91)
In article <Apr.4.13.25.15.1991.23327@pilot.njin.net> debotton@pilot.njin.net (Leonard Debotton) writes: >So, how come the 32 bit chipset is 6 years late!!! :) :) > >Just kidding...I've been reading a few articles every once in awhile >regarding an Amiga somewhere between the Amiga 500 & the 2000, so let >me pose a few suggestions... > >1. Those PC Tower cases which are advertised every month in Computer > Shopper seem to be big enough (and cheap enough) that someone could > probably fit an Amiga 500 motherboard (w/ room to spare) inside one of > them. > >2. Has anyone (yet) put together a zorro II backplane that wuld plug > onto the Amiga 500's expansion bus? I'm thinking specifically of > something that could be used w/ #1, so that you'd effectively have > an A2000 in a tower case for less money. > >So, have any companies done this? Are any likely to do this? >Is this a bad idea? Comments... > >Len > There is a new a500 case 0out called Avant, and it is better than the Bodega Bay. Avant turns the a500 into an a2000 look alike. David -- David Tiberio SUNY Stony Brook 2-3481 AMIGA DDD-MEN -- Any students from SUNY Oswego? Please let me know! :)