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#CD-ROM on APOLLO-Ctrl

    05-Oct-94 22:58:12
Fm: Rick Green 71324,173
To: wayne mcnally 73617,2104
Hello…. in 84-85, I was in middle school in Colorado Springs, and had a TRS-80 COCO, C-64, TI-99/4a, and a Sinclair 1000 (the C-64 was my favorite). Anyways, I had a GVP A2000 Impact series 1 (the kind that can accomodate 2MB RAM via 1MB X 1 DIPPS) installed in my expansion chassis on my A500 since 1989. It has the original version 1.0 boot ROMS installed (I bought it just after they came with Autoboot). Paid $399 for the thing unpopulated. Tried to hook up an old single spin CD-ROM to it last year. It wouldn't work. GVP said they don't support the card any more, and no ROM updates were available anymore. They also said it never supported CD-ROM. I now have a Series II in my A2000 (and soon, my A500) with 8MB, but I put a new double spin CD-ROM on my 12Gauge equipped A1200. I haven't tried it with the Series II, but it is supposed to support it. Good luck. –IBM compatable technician by day, Amiga madman by night– Rick Green, Mobile, Al