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Offline Darrin

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Re: 3000 vs 4000?
« on: April 11, 2011, 10:52:43 PM »
I have an A2000, A3000 and A4000.  The A2000 and A4000 are both hooked up while the A3000 sits on a shelf.  I think that says it all.

Yes, the A4000 has a built in SDFF, but the A4000 has AGA.
Both have Zorro 3.
The A4000 mobo will take a 16MB SIMM, while good luck trying to find a bucket-load of ZIPs for the A3000.
There's bugger all space in the A3000 for a CD ROM drive.
SCSI devices will be a pain to track down on eBay while you can rip lots of cheap IDE devices off old, broken PCs.
If you do add a CPU card (for faster speed and extra RAM) then the chances are that it will have SCSI on it.

Do remember that the A4000 has a single IDE header (2 devices).  I terminated mine and put a FastATA4000 into one of the Zorro slots.  If you're saving money then a Buddha card would be an option too.
A2000, A3000, 2 x A1200T, A1200, A4000Tower & Mediator, CD32, VIC-20, C64, C128, C128D, PET 8032, Minimig & ARM, C-One, FPGA Arcade... and AmigaOne X1000.