Thinking of adding a Hd to my A500

[darksun9210]

yeah do it! there are still a few that pop up on ebay from time to time. a hard disk is one of the best upgrades you can do to your miggy :-)

[darksun9210]

otherwise, search ebay or amibay for an "amiga GVP"
this should hopefully bring up a few things.
what you're after is an A500 GVP impact HD8+ or similar.
its a box that bolts onto the side of your A500 that has a scsi controller, hard disk, and upto 8MB extra ram. i wouldn't expect to pay more than 50 GBP for one.

i see on ebay at the moment, there is a GVP A530. its the same as an HD8, but it also has a 40Mhz 68EC030 cpu and 68882 fpu in there to speed up your machine. - these accelerators are fairly wanted bits of kit, hence the scary price!  :-D

[darksun9210]

fair point, i'd not considered that option.  :lol:

expand your A500! buy an A1200!

and yes, you do loose room with it. my desk fits a keyboard and a mouse, but the sideport addon for my A500 eats up my mousing space. pain in the arm/shoulder, as i now have to stretch to mouse ontop of the A500 :roll:

not the most ergonomic, but the reason i got an A500 again is it's the machine i started with. so i'm sentimental i guess... plus the A1200 is too easy to expand. lol :-)