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Andrew Quipp? We have reason to believe that on or around Sun, 26 Nov 95
you did type the following:

> I am planing to purchase a 1200 with an accelerator, the new Blizzard
> 1230-IV looks good, with the SCSI-2 option.

The Falcon 040 looks very nice, too. I don't know if it's relevant, but the
promised SCSI addon never materialised (AFAIK) for the 1230-II (which I have)
so it'd be best to check and make sure it's available.

> The prices in Amiga mags
> look more expensive than the PC ones for SCSI peripherals so I plan to
> purchase from there - Hard Drive, about 500MB should do.

You'd be wanting an IDE one, surely to goodness. They're cheaper, for one
thing, and you can hide them inside the case of the 1200.

> Also a SCSI CD
> drive. Anyway what I want to know is are there any pitfalls to watch
> out for.

Not especially, just bear in mind that most CD drives advertised in PC mags
are bare (designed to go in a PC case) whereas the ones in Amiga mags tend to
be cased, with phonos for audio out and so forth.

> Also I plan to install all of them ( including the 1200 board )
> into a PC mini-tower case with a cable running to the keyboard. Is there
> any advantage of Quad speed over Double speed.

What, apart from it being twice as fast?

One thing about mounting in a tower case - it is possible, but it's not too
easy. You've got to sort out the power supply connectors, and also make sure
you can get all the external connectors (serial, parallel, monitor, PCMCIA
etc.) to the exterior of the case so's you can plug stuff in. Also, connecting
the 1200's keyboard may be a tad difficult.

> Any comments will be
> appreciated. Any sources of reliable vendors ( or not ). Please E-Mail
> back with any information.

Cc'ed (hopefully)

> Look forward to re-joining the Amiga
> community ( I had one when they first came out. Have a P90 setup at the
> momment :-(

Pass it over here if you don't want it :)

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