As the title says: I'm thinking of trading in my Amiga 2000 for a 3000 (save some space, move to a fully 32-bit system, yay.) I'm not really looking for a huge power-user setup:
- I do want a few MB of fast RAM - doesn't matter too much whether it's on a card or on the motherboard (is one significantly faster?)
- No hard drive needed, as I'm planning to just drop my existing one right in. It'd be nice if it had two floppies installed.
- I do want it to be the 25MHz model instead of the 16MHz model, and have a Kickstart 3.1 ROM. Also, NTSC.
- Will my 2000 keyboard work with a 3000? If not, I'll definitely need a 3000 keyboard.
- I'm not looking for a monitor - I have a VGA display I can use and I don't want to pay for shipping on a monitor.
Being as I'm looking to replace one with the other, I'm open to trading for part or all of my 2000 setup, comprised of the following:
- 2500-badged Amiga 2000 (I think it's a Rev. 6 board,) one floppy drive.
- Commodore 1084S RGB/composite monitor with stereo sound.
- Commodore A2630 accelerator (68030 @ 25MHz,) with 2MB of 32-bit fast RAM.
- Intact but non-functional DKB 2632 add-on for the accelerator - I think I may have static-shocked it. If you can get it functional, it's loaded with 96MB of 32-bit RAM and can take another 16MB.
- GVP Impact A2000-HC+8 Series II SCSI controller + RAM expansion. Currently loaded with 6MB of RAM; I think I have spare SIMMs to get it up to 8MB.
- ASDG Lan Rover Ethernet card. I think I might like to keep this one, but I'm not averse to parting with it, either.
- Commodore A2088XT PC bridgeboard. Kind of a novelty item, but if you've ever desperately desired to have a PC-XT in your Amiga, there you go.
If none of that piques your interest, I'm also willing to pay cash and sell off the 2000 separately (and if you're just interested in the 2000 stuff and don't have a 3000, drop me a line and I'll get back to you when I'm ready to do the selling.) I'd be willing to pay around $100-150 US + S/H for the kind of basic 3000 setup I'm looking for. Anybody have one to spare?
Darren has a point. You can mount a CDrom drive right in the case. Given your modest ambition for a 3000, adding an Indivision to your 2000 would get you in the same ball park. Adding a Picasso II to a 2000 would open another world. Another DKB2632 should not be that hard to find, you already have the ram chips.
A 3000 might have a modest speed boost with a full 32-bit bus. It can take a lot of ram without further acceleration. It can use the 2000 keyboard
