AMax-II ??'s
05-Nov-90 20:23:19
Sb: #5094-AMax-II ??'s
Fm: Daryl Anderson 70416,1046
To: WARD E. JOHNSON 75315,1504
Ward,
I was stuck on my CLtd controller and did contact Micro-Dyn and heard of
"possibilities". Since I was also looking for Memory beyond 1.5Meg (with
Insider board) for my 1000 I looked at and eventually bought the Xetec
controller. (Fast-Trak). It is AMAX compatible per Xetec and ReadySoft and
accepts piggyback RAM expansion up to 8Meg. The software is "SCSI-direct"
compatible and supports AutoBoot. I am quite happy with it so far with 4MB
SIMM memory added and the bang-per-buck is great (they sell direct only so
your/my dealer(s) are grumpy). $175 plus $85 for the controller plus
ram-card and $43/Meg for the SIMMs (!). I did have to ground my A-1000
PALs, they had worked fine with variety of other expansion devices so I
think the Xetec might be a tad touchy on timing, but, as I said, everything
has been working fine for a coupla-3 weeks.
PS – sold the CLtd controller plus Drive for a song… you might get $50-75
for the controller alone…
– da