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From: mjp@spice.cs.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ASDG Product Update
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Date: Mon, 20-Jul-87 14:59:28 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 20 14:59:28 1987
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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
				
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