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Article #588Re: 310 or 3020 help?
From: R Voisey
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 13:07
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 13:07
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In article <1992Nov19.150322.1@cc.curtin.edu.au> sdaveyj@cc.curtin.edu.au writes:
> Can you fit IDE or SCSI harddiscs in a 310 without a backplane?
You can fit SCSI harddisks using an EcoSCSI board (plugs into the
econet socket) BUT it has drawbacks:
1. It's 8 bit and NOT fast
2. You have to boot the filing system etc from a floppy
3. It ties up your econet port
>Total cost no more than about $2500 or 1000 pounds.
You should be able to get something MUCH better than a 310 for
a grand (I only got 1300 for my A5000). Settle for nothing less
than a 400/1 with 2-4Megs of RAM, 50-120Mb hard disk, ARM-3 and
colour monitor (possibly cheap multisync). Second hand Archs
are NOT worth much these days.
Having said that, you might have a problem finding a system
like that because it's not worth selling them for that price.
Peeps seem to start out asking ridiculous money in the BAU
classifieds, get no response after a few months, then just
hang onto them.
Bob
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!pipex!warwick!uknet!gdt!uwe-bristol!r_voisey From: r_voisey@csd.uwe.ac.uk (R Voisey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.tech Subject: Re: 310 or 3020 help? Message-ID: <1992Nov23.130736.20994@csd.uwe.ac.uk> Date: 23 Nov 92 13:07:36 GMT References: <1992Nov17.164517.6308@planet.bt.co.uk> <1992Nov19.150322.1@cc.curtin.edu.au> Organization: University of the West of England, Bristol Lines: 30