Subj : Re: Amiga 3000 resurrected
To   : Greg Goodwin
From : Rodney Hester
Date : Tue Nov 11 2003 22:03:34

In a message of 10 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. 
 >> =)

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

Up to four.

 >>> 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.

 GG>     That Amiga 1200 is sounding really nice.

Considering the expandability beyond the designer's wildest dreams, it is indeed.

 >>> 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.

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

No, no hacks for larger that I'm aware of.  Please forgive my lack of detailed PCMCIA RAM knowledge, I'm afraid I'm not in a position to answer the other questions - try asking in comp.sys.amiga.hardware for more detail than you'll probably want.  =)

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

Absolutely.  I still vividly remember moments watching groundbreaking Amiga demos - some of which still impress people today.  It's pretty funny to hear people ask "how do you make a computer do that?" when showing them a demo made over a decade ago running under emulation.  *laughs*

- Rodney

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