Date   : Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:52:54 +0000 (GMT)
From   : tommowalker@... (Tom Walker)
Subject: Might be getting a A3010

> I might be getting a A3010 over the weekend :D , there is one on ebay and
> it is very local to me (as in about a mile away!)
> 
> Although, I have never even looked at an Archimedes before. Is this a
> reasonable model for my "first" one ?

It's not a bad one to start with. It's the easiest to connect up, as it has
both VGA connectors and RF out, so you can use a monitor or TV. It's got RISC
OS 3 as standard, and has a high-density floppy drive so it's fairly easy to
copy stuff over.

Speed should be a lot better than an ARM2 machine (eg A3000, A4x0) but a bit
slower than ARM3 (A5000).

Only real downside is that, if you wanted a machine with a hard drive, this
is the wrong one as there's no interface as standard (or rather, there's an
IDE interface but no connector), so you'd need an IDE podule for that.

Tom


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