KevinO
Experienced Member
I've never laid hands on a a real Amiga 600. Every other model, but not that one. Dunno if I have even seen one in real life. They're small, I could justify squeezing one into my collection on that basis....
Whenever I see one, can't escape the feeling it was supposed to be a notebook. I just read someone had that feeling too.
An external fdd arrived today. I'll test that out tomorrow. It has a pass through connector with on/off switch. How many of these could be daisy chained? The joystick hasn't arrived yet.
Now I can understand what Amiga fans were on about with regards to what was on offer by the "PC" world in the late 80s early 90s. Plug n play off the bat on 16 bit architecture, a graphical mutlitasking OS on 880k etc. Of course it's all history now. The speach synth is a hoot. Having CLI (Shell)option available as well obviously is an advantage though most of what's needed is in the menu.
Was quite surprise how high you could set the baud rate up on the serial port as well considering most modems where a lot less but I guess the main purpose was file transfers between machines. When I get the 286/10 I think I'll do a one/ one comparison- comparing hardware, software and upgradablity.