Date   : Sat, 29 Mar 2008 18:32:46 -0000
From   : acorn@... (Andy Ford)
Subject: Might be getting a A3010

I did not get it in the end :(

Oh well :)



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Walker" <tommowalker@...>
To: <bbc-micro@...>
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 1:52 PM
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] 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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