When I finally moved from my A1000 which I spent a small fortune on to upgrade it to a Spirit Insider 1.5mb RAM board, internal 105mb IDE hard drive, DKB Shuffle board which allows the first external floppy disk to be recognized as DF0:, because the internal 3.5" hard drive is placed in the space where the internal floppy was located. An AdIDE and a DKB KwikStart Kickstart ROM switcher. I think I spent over $2,000 in add-on's on that A1000. Anyway, when I moved from my A1000 to an A2000 the company where I worked offered free interest loans for computer equipment up to $3,000, as long as the computer equipment was compatible with the software used at the office. Since I did not own any Windows PC yet at that time, I submitted the application form with a Goldengate Bridgeboard, Vector 68030/33MHz accelerator, DKB MegaChip 2mb Chip RAM expansion, DCTV, VLab single frame video capture card, Video Director video recorder controller via Amiga serial port, AdPro image manipulation software, and a few more software titles that I can't remember all the names of. I maxed out the loan amount, plus some, I think the total purchase of gear and software came to $3,065 when I was done and all of it except one or two items was purchased from Creative Computers in Santa Monica, California, where I drove to the store to pick all of it up in person after ordering it by phone. All I had to do was explain that the Bridgeboard allowed me to run Windows3.11 and WordPerfect6 and they approved the rest of the Amiga stuff on the list for the loan. It was great to have all that gear at one time and only have to pay about $50 every two weeks to repay the loan.
That A2000 with the Vector accelerator was a lot of fun, but I do remember that the Vector SCSI had a couple of quirks that made it incompatible with other SCSI controllers, or drives that had been formatted by other SCSI controllers. I used that A2000 a lot before I began to get too busy with work and family and stopped using my Amiga every day, as I finally bought a Windows laptop and began using that for all of my email and web browsing, plus a little work that I would bring home.
The Vector was nice, but it was different than the GVP combo accelerator/SCSI/RAM expansion cards.
@Magnetic,
Do you have any links to information about Jens doing an A2000 accelerator slot card, or is he instead planning an A500 accelerator that plugs into the 68000 chip socket that will also fit into the A2000? The old Derringer accelerators are designed that way to work in both an A500 and A2000 by plugging into the 68000 chip socket. I even saw one person who modified his CDTV case, so that he could use his Derringer accelerator in his CDTV.
