| Title: | AMIGA NOTES |
| Notice: | Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2 |
| Moderator: | HYDRA::MOORE |
| Created: | Sat Apr 26 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Feb 05 1992 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 5378 |
| Total number of notes: | 38326 |
Hi,
anyone in the U.S.A or Europe seen the new A590 hard disk/expansion
adapter from Commodore ?
For those of you that haven't read or heard about it, the features
are :-
20 MB hard disk (SCSSI)
Space for 2 MB of memory expansion
Small foot-print connecting to the A500 expansion connector
on the side.
I was wondering if anyone has seen it and heard the price ?
regards
Mike
P.S.
It is not currently available Downunder.
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 2276.1 | in UK | IGETIT::ELLISM | Purring on a straight six.... | Sat Feb 25 1989 12:44 | 15 |
| 2276.2 | Update on the A590, anyone? | WAV12::HICKS | I could have had a DS3100!!!! | Thu May 11 1989 00:17 | 4 |
Has anyone got/used/seen/read about one of these A590s?
Are they worth what I would expect to be a premium price coming
from C.? Do they do DMA?
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| 2276.3 | There ya go. | FRAMBO::BALZER | Thu May 11 1989 09:12 | 14 | |
Re: .2
I've been the fellow who did the presentation of the A590 on this
years CeBIT in Hannover, Germany. IMHO the A590 is the first choice
of expanding you A500 with a HD and memory. And it does DMA of course.
The price should be around $650 with a 20MB HD and zero RAM.
However, the HD they had in the unit I presented was painfully slow.
Since you probably won't be able to get the A590 without it, you
better start saving money for a nice SCSI drive...
You can hook up to seven SCSI units to the A590, the max data transfer
rate of the controller into the system (RAM) is about 1.2 MB/s.
- <CB>
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| 2276.4 | I have an A590 | KETJE::VLASIU | Thu Jul 20 1989 15:42 | 11 | |
Sorin Vlasiu
Brussels
Hi, I'm the fresh owner of an A590 since a week and I'm
VERY HAPPY for this !!!
Yes it contains an XT Epson drive as it is sold but for the
price I've paid (about 650$) it is just great.
Installing is very easy and the improvement in your life great!
More about next week (but if you own an A500 go and buy it).
Hard days for Atari and the others are to come now!
Bye!
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