Subj : Re: My A2K died :"
To   : DENNIS SMITH
From : Rene Laederach
Date : Fri Sep 26 2003 20:23:32

DENNIS SMITH wrote to RENE LAEDERACH:
DS> 
DS>  I know! :) Should I kill Zeus and go with my '020 & OS3.9? Wasted a lot 
DS> of
DS> time long ago on trying to get Zeus to work with KS3.1. Problems were 
it's
DS> non-auto configuration and memory pooling. I decided that it's own Rom 
was

The Zeus had a special configuration, and this was known even back then. I
stuck to Phase5 and didn't run too badly. Even repairs of P5 products are 
still
possible here in Europe, but the price is hideous if one looks at the
performance of the hardware.
 
DS> '92-'93. I saw the Amiga World mag. '93 issue on the A3000T which sported
DS> a sticker price -- $5000. Yep, the Zeus'040 was featured. 

I remember the prices. I also know that 2 GB of 266 MHz registered ECC RAM 
cost
 me something like 500 US-$ now. It's just insane. I have more than 480 MB of
diskspace on my BBS machine (4x120 in RAID5, 2x120 in RAID1), and I'm slowly
starting to fill up that space. snoop.alphanet.ch simply has too much
horsepower now,
 
I'd need to find a way to transfer my measly 7 GB of files from my old A2k to 
 Unix machine and extract the data in the file descriptions, but this could
turn out to be very interesting. Since all my Amigas with SCSI are dead, this
is not easily possible as I used PFS instead of FFS.

Unless of course somebody knows to read a PFS filesystem under Linux....
 
DS> Anyway, so your thinking about an AmigaOne -- cool! I think OS4 will
DS> debute around this Christmas. So, that will be a nice Christmas gift. Are
DS> you on Santa Claus's list? :-))

I don't know if Santa registered a special present for me, but I already have 
 IBM RS6000 with two PowerPC CPUs, running on AIX (I need a platform that 
will
run SAP for me).

DS>  BTW, checkout the AmigaOne-Lite at soft3.com before deciding anything!

www.soft3.com is a website in Spanish, and my Spanish ain't really good.


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