[geeks] Amiga 2000 acelerator card?
Michael Parson
mparson at bl.org
Sat Apr 28 18:33:45 CDT 2007
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 04:15:28PM +0100, Mark wrote:
> On 28 Apr 2007, at 00:39, Bill Bradford wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 11:59:59PM +0100, Mark wrote:
>>> Don't hang your heart out if you are looking to do this on the cheap.
>>> Zorro NICs are REALLY sought-after. I paid about 50GBP for both mine,
>>> one is a X-Surf (bridged ISA), the other a Commodore A2065 (native
>>> Thicknet or BNC).
>>
>> Damn. May have to see if I can do PPP over serial to a gateway Linux
>> box or something then.
>
> Yeh, sorry. Rule #1 of Amiga hardware - it's usually expensive :o\
Which is why I eventually gave up maintaining my Amiga stuff. I looked
at how much I'd spent on it over the previous year and realized I could
have had one hell of a PC rig, even if it was a PC.
I finally kicked that habit and am back on the expensive computers kick.
This time, with Macintosh. ;)
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Michael Parson
mparson at bl.org
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