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| 1791.1 | A2058...heres some info | ANT::GERBER | Robert Gerber | Wed Oct 19 1988 09:34 | 7 |
| The A2058 board comes standard with 2MB of 1M chips. With expansion
space for six more megs or ram.
The list price for the A2058 is $795.00 US. I know that The Memory
Location has them in stock and their price is $700.
-----Robert
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| 1791.2 | | CSC32::J_PARSONS | Like Lesser Birds on the 4 Winds... | Wed Oct 19 1988 10:33 | 1 |
| The Software Hut in Philadelphia has them for $659 in stock.
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| 1791.3 | another place for A2058 | ESPN::SWARTZ | | Wed Oct 19 1988 14:40 | 11 |
| I was talking to the guy at the new New Hampshire store (System
Eyes) about 1.3 and I asked him if he had the A2058 in stock. He
said that he had it for $799 which was the list but he was selling
it at 10% off. Since there is no sales tax there you could get
it for $720 and that beat TML. I for one have had problems with mail
order: not getting the product when they said they could deliver,
finding out that it was on back order and not really available,
returns etc. But that's just one man's opinion, I'm sure that others
folks have had pleasant experiences.
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| 1791.4 | Software Hut Okay? | CGFSV2::CADAMS | Clint Adams - Calgary, Canada | Wed Oct 19 1988 17:34 | 9 |
| re.. .2
I hope the the Software Hut is reputable, I just did the 500 to 2000
upgrade through them. They are shipping the unit tomorrow. They seemed
real nice on the phone.
If anyone is familiar with these guys, give me your impressions please.
Regards.... Clint
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| 1791.5 | Consider ASDG | TLE::RMEYERS | Randy Meyers | Wed Oct 19 1988 18:12 | 29 |
| Re: .0
There is an alternative to the Commodore board that you might want
to consider. ASDG makes an 8 Meg board that takes 1M x 1 chips.
ASDG is known as a very high quality hardware company for the Amiga.
I've had their 8 Meg board for a year now and am very satisfied with it.
The ASDG board has a feature that not all 8 Meg boards have. You
can populate it with either 2 Meg, 4 Meg, 6 Meg, or 8 Meg. Most
8 Meg boards only support 2 Meg, 4 Meg and 8 Meg (they force you to
go from 4 Meg to 8 Meg with no intermediate step).
The reason why is that the Amiga autoconfig protocol does not support
boards with 6 Meg of address space. What ASDG does is pretty clever.
The Autoconfig protocol supports multiple devices per board. So,
if you have 6 Meg on an ASDG board, the board claims to be a board
with two devices: a 4 Meg memory expansion and a 2 Meg memory expansion.
Thus, ASDG supports in a completely conforming way a memory size not
directly supported in by the protocol!
ASDG usually advertises in the Amiga magazines. You might want to call
them up and see what their price is for the board. Commodore might
be cheaper because Commodore can but memory cheaper than ASDG.
The ASDG board comes with two levels of memory diagnostics (a standalone
program that is very extensive, and a runs transparently in background
test), and the uncrippled version of their ASDG Recoverable Ram disk
(the shareware version does not support disks over 4 meg).
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| 1791.6 | Try Omnitek, also check out 8UP! board. | BOMBE::MOORE | Where do you go when you're Toad Away? | Thu Oct 20 1988 00:22 | 15 |
| Another alternative I've been considering is Microbotics 8UP!...
This one uses SIMMs (like Macs), either 256K or 1 Meg units, lots of
possible combinations starting (I think) at 512K. 8UP! also supports
the 6 Meg configuration. This may be particularly attractive if I can
obtain used 256K SIMMs from friends who've upgraded their Macs. That
would give me 2 Megs while I'm waiting for 1M prices to come down. They
claim to use an intelligent refresh circuit that virtually eliminates
any CPU access delays.
I was asking Dick Snyder at Omnitek about the 8UP! a couple of weeks
ago. He said he could order it, cost was around $175 without SIMMs.
He also suggested the Amiga 8 Meg unit (A2058?) with 2 Megs installed
for $429. This price was for units he had in stock, price would be a
bit higher (i.e. $475?) after his initial shipment sold. And yes, it
uses 1 Meg chips.
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| 1791.7 | SIMM cost more than chips | TLE::RMEYERS | Randy Meyers | Thu Oct 20 1988 01:52 | 12 |
| A few comments:
In general, chips are less expensive than SIMMs.
Also SIMMs have a problem. If you use low-density SIMMs to initially
populate a board, you have to replace them with high-density SIMMs
to reach your boards full potential. That is why some Mac owners
have SIMMs sitting around after getting a memory upgrade.
The ASDG board also has carefully designed refresh to avoid any wait states.
In general though, I think you really have to screw up refresh for this
to be much of a problem.
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| 1791.8 | Does Omnitek do mail order? | CSC32::J_PARSONS | Like Lesser Birds on the 4 Winds... | Thu Oct 20 1988 08:57 | 12 |
| re .6
> He also suggested the Amiga 8 Meg unit (A2058?) with 2 Megs installed
> for $429. This price was for units he had in stock, price would be a
> bit higher (i.e. $475?) after his initial shipment sold. And yes, it
> uses 1 Meg chips.
If this price is for real then I'll order one tomorrow. The lowest
price I've seen for this board is $659 with 2 megs installed. Are
you sure he wasn't talking about the straight 2 meg board?
Can someone give me a phone number for Omnitek?
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| 1791.9 | It *was* too good to be true 8*{ | BOMBE::MOORE | Where do you go when you're Toad Away? | Thu Oct 20 1988 18:06 | 11 |
| Well, Jack informs me that he called Omnitek and found that their price
for the 2058 board with 2 megs installed is actually $629. Apparently
the $429 quote was for the smaller 2 meg board with 256K chips, and I
misunderstood. I'd swear he told me it was a new item, this was his
first shipment, etc., I guess I missed a context switch. Sorry for the
bum steer...
At this rate the 8UP! option is looking better and better. I'm pretty
sure I can get the board ($199 list, around $150 discounted) and plug
in 2 megs of used SIMMs for a *lot* less than $700, possibly less than
$400.
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