#3000 is here!
The 3000 is actually shipping! 10 machines showed up at Amagination in New
York on Friday. I think 2 have been sold so far (I and my bleeding credit
card know for certain about one). The computers come with both 1.3 and
2.0.
There is something weird going on with 3.0. It comes with a Kickstart
disk, but if you just turn the 3000 on it loads Kickstart "2.x" into RAM.
Yes, you lose memory to RAM. I had been told you'd lose 512K, but when you
boot your status reads 945480 graphics mem, 248,848 other mem if you load
from ROM, 945,272 and 248160 if you use the Kickstart disk.
The packaging is great, including a poster – style quick set up and very
extensive docuementation. Now to see if it's accurate :-).
Anyway, I thought people would want to know that the beast has surfaced.
-Brian