Subj : Amiga and ST
To   : Greg Goodwin
From : Andy Ball
Date : Sun Feb 29 2004 21:33:04

Hello Greg,

  GG> All I can say is wow.  I guess I will have to see more 1200's in
    > action.  They sound like good machines that people are always
    > torn on wiether to keep in the keyboard and computer in one
    > design, or break out from that and start expanding.

The A1200 is a nice machine: 16 MHz 68020 (near as makes no odds) and I ran a 68882, possibly at 32 MHz and a 4Mb SIMM (in addition to the soldered 2Mb).  Both FPU and SIMM socket were on a card that lived in the trapdoor slot.  A friend of mine added a 68030+68882 to his, both running at 50 MHz.  He eventually went the tower route.

  GG> Reminds me of my Atari 1040 STE.  :)  (Expanded to 4 meg.. blah
    > blah blah...)

The 1040 STE was a nice machine, but not really in the same class as an A1200, which had a 32-bit bus and room for a 2.5" ATA hard disk internally (that said, if you've got a 1040 laying around somewhere... ;-)

  GG> Yeh, sounds like the Amiga is either the parallel for the 1040
    > STE or the Falcon.  Not sure which yet.

That's not comparing like with like.  An Amiga 500 would be a suitable match for an STE - but more expandable, with a more sophisticated (and complicated) operating system.  An A1200 is more like a TT than a Falcon, since it has a full 32-bit bus, yet lacks the DSP.

- Andy.

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