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Article #18490Re: New A500 PLUS
From: Peter Wemm
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 1992 06:58
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 1992 06:58
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sbiddle@aviate.cavebbs.gen.nz (Steve Biddle) writes: >In article <9200519.18439@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> moeller@mundil.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Mario Moeller) writes: >>So when's the new A500 plus coming to Australia then? >They've been available over here in NZ since about the start of December, >so should be in Aus I'd imagine.. >>Will the price still be the same as the 500? >Yes, over here at least they are. but I haven't yet seen one other than as >a unit with TV mod, most dealers over here still have stock from before >the 500+ appeared, so they are sort of being phased in. The A501+ isn't yet >available in NZ that I know of yet either.. A friend of mine has an A500plus in Perth, West Aust. He told me about it yesterday, It has a revision 8 motherboard, KS2.04 on rom, a smaller, cleaner motherboard, 1 meg chip, an 8375 agnus, and the rest of the ECS, and it has an Epson floppy drive in it instead of the Chinnon FB-354's. He also told me that the rom socket has address lines for 1 megabyte roms!!!! The things that make you go hmmmm.... :-) -- Peter Wemm : peter@zeus.dialix.oz.au Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggy" until you can find a suitable rock.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fee24,bea623b88c46da56 X-Google-Attributes: gidfee24,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1992-01-08 07:52:22 PST Newsgroups: aus.computers.amiga Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!DIALix!zeus!peter From: peter@zeus.DIALix.oz.au (Peter Wemm) Subject: Re: New A500 PLUS Message-ID: <1992Jan8.065809.16783@zeus.DIALix.oz.au> Organization: Karam Pty. Ltd., Perth, Australia. References: <9200519.18439@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> <sbiddle.04py@aviate.cavebbs.gen.nz> Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1992 06:58:09 GMT Lines: 21