Harv's A2000 is a rather wicked machine..not much unlike my 4000*. He has a Wildfire 060/SCSI-II card, a Picasso II video card (the Spectrum is slightly better), and some other mods (Mini-mega chip, high density disc drive, etc.). His system is not updated (thanks to my efforts) with a larger HDD and OS 3.9 plus a CD-R drive.
:-D
Plus the Wildfire 060 card has 10BaseT Ethernet on it.. and a five gig Secrate drive, and a 4x CD-R/RW Burner in the five inch bay..
Now in case you didn't know, I got that 2500 in its original configuration (A2620, 2090-A, dinky 44 meg hard drive, etc. etc.).. directly from C= in West Chester in 1989 as payment from John Dvorak for writing the Amiga chapter in his book "Dvorak's Guide To Desktop Telecommunications" in which I wrote 16 pages on Amiga terminal programs and online services.. they had gone over budget on the book by the time I got involved with it but they wanted an Amiga chapter, so they asked me what I'd take in lieu of cash for writing it, and I said "Get me a new 2500 from Commodore and have it shipped to me".. so he did.. it came with a 1080 monitor, I think, and an exciting Amiga RS1200 modem, which I never used once and still have in the closet, Mint In Box (and probably quite worthless)..
At the time, I think the 2500/020 was selling for about $3000.00.. it had just come out..
I got the galley sheets to review before the book went to press, and I later got a copy of the book when Osborne/McGraw-Hill published it in 1990.. with the 16 pages I wrote basically exactly as I wrote them.. Dvorak writes very little of the books that bear his name.. he contracts out most of the chapters to other writers..
So that's where my 2500 first came from, and it's gone through many iterations of upgrades in the past 14 years up to its present, somewhat beefy state.. still running
Yes, I need to network it to the Winblows box so it can share the cable modem.. a project I have wanted to do for over a year but just haven't gotten a round tuit yet..
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Harv
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