--- Jeff Hellige <jhellige_at_earthlink.net> wrote:
> on 7/5/01 11:34 AM, Ethan Dicks at ethan_dicks_at_yahoo.com wrote:
> > I have both an A3000 and an A4000 (each one was in turn my primary Amiga
> > for years). I personally like the A3000 more, but the internal CD-ROM bay
> > and the AGA chipset is mighty attractive (but so is
> SCSI-on-the-motherboard).
>
> The AGA advantage is pretty much nulled by a graphics card,
Never did get a graphics card. About the only upgrades I ever got were
network cards, a serial card (for $20 in a clearance), an A-Max II+ card
(which got lots of use driving a LaserJet-4/ML with A-Max) and I did
upgrade the CPU in my A4000 (first by replacing the 68EC030 with a *real*
68030 - yes, by soldering; second by replacing the original CPU card
with a C= '040 card). Oh... that's right... I did buy lots of stuff for
my A1000 (Sprit InBoard, StarBoard w/StarDrive, ROM switcher, Rejuvinator,
WEDGE (8-bit ISA MFM card adapter)...) By the time the A3000 came out,
mostly I bought RAM and bigger hard disks.
> ...I didn't like the way a drive put in the A4000's 5-1/4" bay went right up
> against the PSU and often times ended up sticking part way out the front of
> the machine.
True. I think I ended up using a right-angle connector for power to get that
last little bit of space back so my CD-ROM drive didn't stick out.
> The internal case
> layout of the A3000 is tight, but very well thought out. The A4000's not
> nearly as well.
You know why that is? C= Engineering had it all laid-out and finished, then
some suit (the LBF?) told them to re-do it to use up the orphaned PC cases they
had stacks and stacks of.
-ethan
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Received on Thu Jul 05 2001 - 21:28:22 BST