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#A3000T '040 Blowout!!

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#132814From: Alan HenryFeb 19, 1994 6:21 PM
THIS IS THE ONE EVERYONE'S BEEN LOOKING FOR!!!!! A3000T '040 25MHz Commodore 1960 Monitor EMPLANT Deluxe Board w/3.9 Software OpalVision Main Board FireCracker 24bit Display Card Zoom 14.4 V.32bis Fax Modem AMTRAC Trackball Quantum 120LPS SCSI HardDrive Seagate 200 MB HardDrive 12 MB 32bit RAM 2 MB Chip RAM Various Software Titles and Docs. Make Serious offer either here or E-Mail **If you're not familiar with the A3000T architecture, it is fully 32bit, but will accept any card designed for the A2000. Therefore it screams and you won't have to hack up another case to fit a card.** Highest bidder gets it!
#132822From: Shawn RandolphFeb 19, 1994 8:42 PM
Hello Alan, If your willing to break up the set I am certain there are fishes in this forum ready to bite :> Shawn Silent Paw Productions
#132823From: Alan HenryFeb 19, 1994 9:13 PM
I'll take offers on any one item and if there is enough of interest to warrent breaking up the whole package I'll do so. I'll probably let it run as is for a little while, though.
#133061From: Michael McCormickFeb 21, 1994 4:15 PM
Just curious, Are you bailing out on the Amiga or did you replace your system with an A4000? The reason I ask is you seem very involved with raytracing on the amiga.
#133116From: Alan HenryFeb 21, 1994 8:37 PM
To be honest I guess I was bailing out initially. I had too many people (big wigs in the Amiga community) tell me to. After listening in on the Utilities Unlimited conference last night, I've decided to hold out until the 486DX2 emulation on the EMPLANT board. If it pans out (apparently OS/2 and NT capable), I'll stay with it. If not, I'll jump over to a Pentium system or the likes. I'd hate to be "dead-ended" by a system that may end up 4 times slower than its closest competitor. For now I think I'll hang on a little longer.
#133169From: Michael McCormickFeb 22, 1994 1:27 AM
Alan, As for what happens to the Amiga I think its fate is sealed by how… and if CBM released a newer version. Until then I'm going to hang in… there. Even if I was to switch to a new platform, I would still keep my… two Amigas. Pentium systems are out of my reach financialy for the time… being. As to what the PowerPC holds we will just have to wait and see.
#133222From: Alan HenryFeb 22, 1994 6:00 AM
Hopefully the EMPLANT is the answer to Amiga's survival. Especially since you basically have no limitations with the ability to multi-task between any DOS (MS, MAC, etc). Even if Amiga dies you still have a computer.
#133277From: Kevin SangwellFeb 22, 1994 5:08 PM
Michael, This is PURELY SPECULCTION, so take it with a LARGE pinch of salt. I read an interview in one of the UK AMiga magazines about a year ago in which the bosses of CBM in the UK said that the new range of Amigas was to include multi-platform emulation built-in. They would also run FASTER than even a DX2 machine, and of course it would be RISC based. Now MY thinking lends me to think that perhaps the new Amigas are goin to be PowerPC based because all of the above is true of this technology. For example, the new Macs that are commin out in a week or two are PowerPC based and will run NATIVE Mac application AND PowerPC specific software Simultaneously completely transparently to the user, in fact only the important parts of the system software has been ported, the old stuff still runs 680×0 code. If the new Amigas were PowerPC based, there is no reason why you could emulate PC, Mac and old Amiga Operating Systems (at a processing overhead of course) concurrently! Let me hear all of your views on this (I'm sure that some will disagree avidly, and others will just think… <g> ) PS some of my facts may have been pure speculation on the magazines part. It's been a LONG time since I read it 😉
#133329From: Jerry ThompsonFeb 22, 1994 11:25 PM
Well, the rumours were that the Amiga OS was ported to a DEC Alpha (or the Alpha was emulating a 680×0). DEC supposedly had an agreement to sell Amigas as low end multimedia X Workstations or something and there were reports of people seeing Workbench running on Alpha processors. I never heard anything concrete or reliable.
#133402From: Dale LarsonFeb 23, 1994 7:00 AM
When someone on the net said that Commodore had the OS ported to Alpha, I started walking around the lab asking everyone where the machine was. I got several good laughs, but no one could point me to it. 🙂
#133457From: Steven KernanFeb 23, 1994 8:16 PM
Greetings! I'm looking to buy an A3000, but I can only afford about $800 for it. I really don't know what your system is worth w/out breaking it up. Let me know if $800 is anywhere near resonable. I'll ask a friend of mine who deals with them. Just wanted to start a dialogue on the possibility of my buying it!
#133559From: Michael McCormickFeb 24, 1994 10:01 AM
Steven, Your messaged ended up going to the wrong person. The possible seller is Alan Henry, 73051,3643. I will say that he has now indicated that he will hold onto the system for the time being. You should still contact him in case he is making a list of possible buyers. "May the Warp be with you!" (c) 1993 Michael McCormick