An older geek returned (after some considerable lurking)

[SamuraiCrow]

Welcome Icepyk!

You didn't say where you were posting from but there are a number of dealers all around the world that sell old and "new old stock" Amiga parts and accessories.

If you are fortunate enough to find a CyberStorm PPC accelerator then you might be able to run AmigaOS 4 on it as soon as the A3000/4000 classic version of AmigaOS 4 is released.  It will take better advantage of the PowerPC accelerator than 3.x does and have some considerably improved graphics card support (which you'll want if you are going to be using the A3000 extensively).

If you're not interested in shelling out much money for it there's little point in upgrading to version 3.9 since the OS hasn't changed that much between 3.5 and 3.9 .

If you have any questions, feel free to post here!

[SamuraiCrow]

Hello again Icepyk,

The Cyberstorm PPC is an accelerator card that plugs into the CPU slot on the A3000 motherboard.  It also has either an '040 or '060 to run the pre-os4 versions of AmigaOS.  Hopefully, OS 4 will make it unnecessary to use the '040 or '060 part of the accelerator card as context switching is slow.