Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rochester!pt!spice.cs.cmu.edu!mjp From: mjp@spice.cs.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: ASDG Product Update Message-ID: <1244@spice.cs.cmu.edu> Date: Mon, 20-Jul-87 14:59:28 EDT Article-I.D.: spice.1244 Posted: Mon Jul 20 14:59:28 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 21-Jul-87 06:14:18 EDT Reply-To: mjp@spice.cs.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi) Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 37 Keywords: PKG.SPARKMAN@MCC.COM (Aubrey Sparkman) writes (about the ASDG 2001 board): > Dimensions were missing... I need to know whether it will fit my > desk and the hutch I am planning to buy. He said it would be a side > mount like the Mini-Racks only bigger... about 15" high by 9 to 10" > wide. Perry! why couldn't it fit on TOP of the Amiga, like the Pal Jr! Not all of us have infinite desk space, or want to make our computer look like a renegade IBM 360 with scads of bulky boxes all over the place. I thought you, of all people, would realize that aesthetics means *something* in the design of a whizzy new hardware product. The Pal Jr is the only hardware expansion for the Amiga that doesn't make me want to barf when I look at it. I realize it's difficult to make a SOTS peripheral look pleasing, but people can at least *try*. If there is a good reason why the 2001 isn't top-mounted, such as bus timing problems over a connector or too much weight for the system unit to support, you have my deepest and most humble apology. A totally unrelated question...will the SDP work with the Mini-Rack C, or will one have to have the Mini-Rack D or 2001? I might be in a consulting position for a possible Amiga purchaser, and I'd like to know. --M -- Mike Portuesi / Carnegie-Mellon University Computer Science Department ARPA: mjp@spice.cs.cmu.edu UUCP: {backbone-site}!spice.cs.cmu.edu!mjp BITNET: rainwalker@drycas (a uVax-1 run by CMU Computer Club...tons o' fun) "Paradise is exactly like where you are right now...only much, much better" --Laurie Anderson, "Lanugage is a Virus"