vic20owner wrote:
Here in the U.S. Amiga related stuff seems to go for premium prices 
. I held on to this while planning to buy an A1200, but after settling on a 3000, I don't need it. I admit it was a longshot!
Why hasn't anyone built a PCMCIA adapter card for the 2000/3000? It'd be great to use a cheap pcmcia card in a 3000 
Because the world's already on to Cardbus by now, and that's basically PCI, and theoretically about to be obsoleted by ExpressCard sometime, which is PCI-Express + USB. :-o
If I had the money to waste (and still had 2000s in my vicinity), I'd go for a USB adapter, since that gives you a lot of flexibility with the sort of cheap peripherals you might ever want on a such a machine (ethernet, modems?, webcams, modern printers, Flash drives of various sorts that are pushing 1GB now, toothbrushes, mug warmers, etc...) ... but that's just my opinion.
"Etherbridge" from Aminet gives you an option if you can fit and set up a bridgeboard. (The 3000 had an ISA bridge slot, right?)
Someone else I ran into had the idea of cramming i386 Linux or NetBSD on their bridgeboard, then running PPP or SLIP or PLIP across a cable back to the Amiga side... I'm not sure how painful that'd be to set up, but it seems less lunatic in retrospect, now that I notice both packages seem to rely on MS-DOS drivers otherwise... and of course, you could use the embedded UNIX "machine" as a personal firewall.
