A3000
Diane;
Well Dale admits to being a software engineer and not a hardware engineer
so I guess the error is ok 🙂
The A3000 holds up to two meg of chip RAM on the MB (some machines
only had one meg installed). There are sockets for up to 16 meg of
FAST RAM on the MB.
The Zorro-II memory space is available so if you have any good
Zorro-II memory boards (such as used in the A2000/2500) you can plug
in up to 8 meg there and as Dale mentioned, you can plug in a couple
of Zorro-III 128 meg memory cards. Thus, I suspect that you are not
too likely to exceed the A3000 memory capability in the near future.
The A3000's came with version 2.x of the OS. The more recent ones
had 2.04 or 2.05. I believe that a software upgrade to 2.1 is
available. There were actually some programs that "broke" under 1.3
that run under 2.x OS. For the most part, anything that won't run
under 2.x is something that you probably should not try to use on any
machine.
You can use a 1084 monitor but will definately want to consider
getting a VGA monitor for use with an A3000. Typically, the A3000
will give you a 690×480 flicker free WorkBench display if you have a
VGA or better monitor.