| Title: | AMIGA NOTES |
| Notice: | Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2 |
| Moderator: | HYDRA::MOORE |
| Created: | Sat Apr 26 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Feb 05 1992 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 5378 |
| Total number of notes: | 38326 |
I really miss not having a hard drive and I would love to rush out
and puchase a nice 20meg unit. The rub is that I own a 500.
The only manufacturer that even hinted at providing one for the
500 is an outfit named "Expansion Technologies Inc." It looks like
a nice unit ( there's a small picture of it in the "hole in the
head" ads in the Amy rags). It will hold an additional 4 meg of
ram, a floppy drive and room for a 5.25" hard disk!
My local dealer (in N.J.) recomended mail order since they can't
even hold on to their floor units... 500's are really moving!
Although I plan to contact Expansion Tech. regarding this, I'd
appreciate hearing from anyone out there who might provide insight
or guidance regarding ET and add-on hard disks for the 500.
Christmas is real close now... ;')
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| 770.1 | Supra and the 500 | TLE::RMEYERS | Randy Meyers | Sun Oct 04 1987 02:17 | 12 |
Re: .0 Supra has advertised that they are doing a hard disk for the Amiga500. An ad I saw (in AmigaWorld?) showed a picture of the drive plugged into a 500. The controller is wedged shaped to match the 500's case, and plugs into the expansion buss on the left. A cable then connects the controller to the disk device itself. I believe that the 500 Supra disk will accept a memory card, just like the Amiga 1000 Supra disk does. Call Supra for details. | |||||
| 770.2 | A500 hard drives | LABC::GRAY | Sun Oct 04 1987 02:25 | 31 | |
I have seen the following products for the Amiga 500. All may not
be shipping yet, however, I would expect to see them before Christmas.
PHD 500 Hard Disk Drive 20 or 40 Mb drive
True SCSI interface command set.
Autoconfiguration compatibility.
100% compatible with all Amiga software, including 1.2 Workbench
External pass-through expansion capability.
Internal power supply, capable of driving external RAM cards
Comes pre-formatted with PD software
Transfer rate to 4mb per second
Access time averages 35ms
Seven device expansion allowed by SCSI
$949 for PHD 500, 20 meg. $1399 for PHD 500, 40 meg.
919-632-2150 (Kansas)
Pacific Peripherals A500 SCSI controller $249
with 20 meg drive $895
with 50 meg drive $1295
415-651-1905 (Fremont,CA)
Supra 20mb for the A500 $995
503-967-9081 (Albany,OR)
My predicition is that the A500 will surpass the A1000 in h/w support
within the next three months. Note that BYTE-BY-BYTE has discontinued
their A1000 PAL Jr but has started producing memory cards for the
A500.
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