On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 20:46:48 +0000, Steve Hamer wrote: > >A600 was a great little machine. > >It shared a lot with the A500 'Plus' (which, ISTR, was really only >introduced because they ran out of chips for the A500, but weren't >ready to go into full-scale A600 production), but it gained PCMCIA and >internal IDE for a laptop sized hard drive.
Good point....I guess for me at the time PCMCIA was a solution looking for a problem and I already had a couple of SCSI drives attached via a GVP side-pod thing and Roctec case (ah, get the rose tinted spectacles out....no, hang on, that GVP cost �250 for 40 MEGABYTES!!!) If I remember correctly, the A500+'s ECS chipset should have been in production much earlier but one of the engineers lost the designs....somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but it sounds about right for Commodore :-( > >Obviously, I really wanted an A1200 at the time, but never had enough >cash for one. > I'd already spent so much on my A500+ that when the A1200 came out it was advanced enough for me to be jealous but not so much that I thought it worth ditching all the accessories. Getting back on topic a bit...I bought the Amiga in 1992 while taking a year out of university. The year before I'd stumbled upon a demo by Apple on campus and thought the machines were fantastic, but even the cheapest models (would it have been the Classic and LC II?) seemed too expensive. By the time I returned to uni I was turning to the dark side (PCs and programming) and Apple were going PowerPC. It was still 5 more years before I finally took the plunge... ...I really must dig out the A500+ some time and see if it still works...or get a life. Neil -- Mac UK is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Mac UK list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/mac-uk.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-uk%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
