A1000 Help needed
Gordon,
I have had no problems with my Insider and the Insider II from DKB is a
good deal, 'cept that you've got to get in under the hood of your amiga (no
soldering though) – plus it has the clock built-in (do you have, need one
?). The Starboard is a very nice system, I have a friend with one – one of
the mail-order houses in this month's AmigaWorld had it bare for $184, the
chips to populate it to 1M would be 32 of the 256Kx1 type at about
$1.35-1.75 each or about $48/meg. I have seen daughterboard for the next
meg for $45 and the SCSI controller for $100.
I NOW have a Xetec which is based on their SCSI controller, for $175 but
which allows a nice inexpensive Ramboard add-on for $85 and expands carries
either 2MB OR 4MB using the SIMM chips which cost me $43 per MB.
The extra RAM is very nice but I strongly advise keeping an eye on the
hard-disk option(s) as well, which mitigate toward the Xetec (IMHO).
– da