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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

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

2276.0. "A590 ?" by ADODEM::MCGHIE (looking for a door...) Fri Feb 24 1989 23:36

    Hi,
    
    anyone in the U.S.A or Europe seen the new A590 hard disk/expansion
    adapter from Commodore ?
    
    For those of you that haven't read or heard about it, the features
    are :-
    
    	20 MB hard disk (SCSSI)
    	Space for 2 MB of memory expansion
    	Small foot-print connecting to the A500 expansion connector
	on the side.

    I was wondering if anyone has seen it and heard the price ?
    
    regards
    	Mike
    
    P.S.
    	It is not currently available Downunder.
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2276.1in UKIGETIT::ELLISMPurring on a straight six....Sat Feb 25 1989 09:4415
    I saw it at th recent WHICH COMPUTER ? Show in Birmingham (UK).
    It is about 4" or 5" wide, and looks very neat, next to the A500.
    Shipping date, was about Sept '89 for the UK, and they were quoting
    a price of ~�500 sterling (I expect this will equate to about $400
    US).
    
    The sort of prices we see in the UK are rediculous :-
    
    �1300 Recomended for A200
    �300 for A2090A (Cheapest I could get was �245)
    �399 recommended for A500
    �5000 for A2500 (Guess by someone at show - as it isn't shipping
    here yet, you can't even buy the bits seperately!)
    
    Martin
2276.2Update on the A590, anyone?WAV12::HICKSI could have had a DS3100!!!!Wed May 10 1989 21:174
    Has anyone got/used/seen/read about one of these A590s?
    
    Are they worth what I would expect to be a premium price coming
    from C.?  Do they do DMA?
2276.3There ya go.FRAMBO::BALZERThu May 11 1989 06:1214
    Re: .2
    
    I've been the fellow who did the presentation of the A590 on this
    years CeBIT in Hannover, Germany. IMHO the A590 is the first choice
    of expanding you A500 with a HD and memory. And it does DMA of course.
    The price should be around $650 with a 20MB HD and zero RAM.
    However, the HD they had in the unit I presented was painfully slow.
    Since you probably won't be able to get the A590 without it, you
    better start saving money for a nice SCSI drive...
    You can hook up to seven SCSI units to the A590, the max data transfer
    rate of the controller into the system (RAM) is about 1.2 MB/s.
    
    -	<CB>
2276.4I have an A590KETJE::VLASIUThu Jul 20 1989 12:4211
    Sorin Vlasiu
    Brussels
    	Hi, I'm the fresh owner of an A590 since a week and I'm
    VERY HAPPY for this !!!
    Yes it contains an XT Epson drive as it is sold but for the
    price I've paid (about 650$) it is just great.
    Installing is very easy and the improvement in your life great!
    More about next week (but if you own an A500 go and buy it).
    Hard days for Atari and the others are to come now!
    Bye!