| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 687.1 | For more info, see previous notes | TLE::RMEYERS | Randy Meyers | Thu Sep 03 1987 08:03 | 17 |
| Re: .0
For the differences between the Amiga 500, 1000, and 2000, see note
673. Basically all Amigas have the same performance and architecture;
the difference are "extras" that you start off with.
The Turbo-Amiga is an Amiga with a 68020 processor running at 14+ megahertz.
A company called CSA sells little boards that you stick into an Amiga 500,
1000, or 2000 to turn it into a Turbo-Amiga. Price is about $600 without
the floating point hardware. They also sell a card cage for the Amiga
1000 that accepts a Turbo-Amiga board for people who want lots of
expandability.
The Commodore 128 and the Amiga line are incompatible. They use incompatible
microprocessors and run entirely different operating systems.
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| 687.2 | | 18583::ACCIARDI | | Thu Sep 03 1987 11:56 | 10 |
| The C128D is rumored to have a detachable keyboard and an internal
5 1/4" floppy drive, also.
Even though the C-64 and the C-128 have an installed base of many,
many ,millions, Commodore would very much like all of these people
to upgrade to Amigas. In fact, they are offering special incentives
to upgrade.
This may be some indication of what product Commodore plans to
emphasize in the future.
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| 687.3 | Plug-ins at a slower speed | DEBIT::RAVAN | | Thu Sep 03 1987 13:26 | 6 |
| RE: .1
And I think the "little plug in boards" mentioned in .1 run at
7+ MHz, not 14+ MHz.
-jim
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| 687.4 | | LEDS::ACCIARDI | | Thu Sep 03 1987 14:20 | 4 |
| I think .1 is correct; check the last Amazing Computing for a review
of CSA products. They make quite a range of add-ins. I think they
do offer a 14.32Mhz internal board. With .5 meg of 32 bit ram,
cost is around $1500.
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| 687.5 | 14 Megahertz | TLE::RMEYERS | Randy Meyers | Thu Sep 03 1987 19:48 | 10 |
| Re: .3, .4
I saw one of the CSA plug in boards complete with 68020 and 68881 at
the Memory Location about two weeks ago. The salesman told me it ran
at 14 megahertz. Without any 32 bit wide memory it was ~$800. He
told me that the board without the 68881 was about $600.
He said that you could add 32 bit wide memory to the board INTERNAL
not only to the Amiga 1000 case but the Amiga 500 case as well. I
was surprised that there was enough space in there.
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