Subj : Re: Amiga 3000 resurrected
To   : Rodney Hester
From : Greg Goodwin
Date : Mon Nov 10 2003 00:46:18

> In a message of 09 Nov 03 Greg Goodwin wrote to me:

>I must say this - the Amiga 3000 was very literally designed to be used with a
> hard disk. It's especially convenient on the SuperKickstart model to switch
> ROMs, though floppies (as you've seen personally) do still work.  =)

    Yeh, doesn't do too bad.  So how many floppy drives can an Amiga handle?

>> Still would love it if PCMCIA cards could be used on this model,
>> but that might just be a A1200 thing.

> A1200 and A600, yes.

    That Amiga 1200 is sounding really nice.

>> What kind of memory cards could be used on the A1200 (and other
>> Amigas with the PCMCIA slot?)

> Pretty much any 4MB (or smaller) PCMCIA RAM card should work, I believe.


    Only 4 mb?  There hasn't been a hack made for larger by now?  What kind of
cards can be used?   Linear or ATA?   Static or Flash?

>> I think the keyboard is finally getting most of the rust knocked
>> off of it.  I took it apart to try to clean it... (A2000 keyboard)
>> Impossible.  But it did remind me of how the Atari 800 keyboard was
>> made... once again adding fuel to this feeling a lot like the Atari 800
>> days... which is what I wanted in a way.  The feel and excitement of
>> the Atari 800, but with a system that can do what I want now, and a
>> little more modern than the 800.  Making that Jay Miner connection, it
>> seems to have worked.  :)

> Jay was indeed a living legend.  =)  Everything he touched seemed to be ahead
> of its time.

> Glad to hear you're enjoying the 3000!

    Man, the Atari 800 and Amiga were definately ahead of their times.  I have
heard two accounts, very similar, how people drooled over the demoes poured out by those machines.   And how they wished they had four times the money for four
times the current computer.  :)

    BTW... anyone have a A-3000 keyboard that is working well for sale.  This
A-2000 keyboard just isn't very responsive.

    Doctor Clu

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