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advice needed on a specific A2000/3000/4000 card
« on: October 22, 2002, 08:08:35 PM »
I own a nice A2000 and A4000. Me happy. Now I saw today on the belgian Ebay something that might allow me to use the two ISA slots in my A2000. The owner of that card says it's a 486 card for the A3000 and A4000 and refers to a url on the Amiga Book Of Hardware with this  link ...
The starting price is 50 euro's which is close to 50 dollars. I've read that you need an adaptor for the A2000 to raise the processor ...
Any advice ?? Worthwile buying or wasted money ??

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Re: advice needed on a specific A2000/3000/4000 card
« Reply #1 on: October 22, 2002, 09:21:45 PM »
That same guy also sells a 286 board ...
a 386 SX board ...
and a 486 board as I already mentionned. The price for the 286 is 20 euro, for the 386 35 euro andf for the 486 50 euro ...

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Re: advice needed on a specific A2000/3000/4000 card
« Reply #2 on: October 22, 2002, 09:23:45 PM »
Sorry, this is the correct url for that 286 Zorro board ....

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Re: advice needed on a specific A2000/3000/4000 card
« Reply #3 on: October 23, 2002, 07:49:26 PM »
Okay, I get the picture. Guess I shall leave those ISA slots empty then and fill all the Z2 slots, which is easy bcoz I've got more cards than empty slots ... is there a way to add more Z2 slots ?? Just asking ...

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Re: advice needed on a specific A2000/3000/4000 card
« Reply #4 on: October 24, 2002, 07:57:57 PM »
So I guess I shall stick to those 5 Z2 boards. At this moment that A2000 runs with a X-Surf, CV64/3D and a Buddha Flash, three cards that come out of my dead A1200 with Z4 board. I also connected my 20 Gb harddrive and it reall works with OS 3.9. The only thing is that my A1200 had 2 Mb chip and 96 Mb fast. This A2000 has got 1 Mb chip and 2 Mb fast and that's not much to run OS  3.9 ... so I got myself a Nexus scsi card with 4 Mb Ram on Ebay (Germany) for 25 euro including porto ... hope that will help ...
Actually I still need to send the money tomorrow and hope to get it end next week ...