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- From: tschille@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Thorsten Schiller)
- Subject: Upgrading an A500
- Message-ID: <By36o6.M6K@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>
- Organization: University of Waterloo
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 22:04:53 GMT
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- Greetings...
-
- Reconsidering my finances (*groan*) I realize that my plans of purchasing an
- A4000 are, well, toast. So, for the next year I think I'm stuck with my pitiful
- 500. SO.... at least I want to pump a bit of money into it in the hopes of at
- least being able to do something productive with it (20 minute compiles
- have got to go).
-
- My first thought is to buy GVP's new A530 (68030 + 120 meg HD). But, the
- 120 Meg (largest that seems to be available) is a bit short on HD space (I
- am also running a BBS)... so, now I'm torn between getting a Syquest 88 Meg
- removable drive (this drive can be attached to the A530's scsi passthru, can't
- it?) or the AdIde and get rid of my internal floppy. Which offers the better
- solution? I've heard a few bad thing about the syquest drives and IDE speaks
- for itself (some things are better mute :) ). Are there other alternatives
- that I'm not considering? Is there an easy way to attach another scsi drive
- to the A530 controller and just have the second drive in "yet another"
- external case?
-
- Lastly, I've inquired about this a couple of times in the past, but might as
- well throw it in once again for good measure :) Is there any easy way of adding
- an additional serial port to the 500 without resorting to the hardware hack
- that's floating around? I would love to have a second port, however the
- hardware hack would be a bad idea considering my harware skills *grin*
-
- Please reply by email since my feed tends to be down a lot. I will summarize
- to the net if anyone would like and/or I get any response :-)
-
- Thorsten
-
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