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[Joel Ewy]

Dan Olson wrote:
> ...
>> I started developing for the Amiga on a 2 drive A1000 system.
>> Swapping disks for the compiler was a nightmare!
>>     
>
> I know, the Amiga is the first system where I had to have 3 drive minimum 
> to not loose my sanity.  I had workbench in one, a MS-DOS disk in another 
> (because I started out downloading stuff from the net and transfering it) 
> and my "destination" disk in the third.  I had to have the utility to 
> decompress files somewhere too, with two disks I kept running into 
> problems where my destination disk would be swapped out for something else 
> while I was trying to write the decompressed files to it, it took quite a 
> bit of juggling to work, 3 drives made life much easier!
>
>  	Dan
>   
I got a 1.5M RAM upgrade (w/RTC) for my A1000 (the Insider II), bringing
the total up to 2M.  That gave me enough RAM to keep some utilities in
the RAM disk, which was crucial because I only had a single floppy.  I
remember hooking up to Delphi at $1/hr using a 2400bps modem on the
A1000.  Then I'd use 720K DOS floppies to transfer downloaded files from
the Amiga to the CoCo 3.  2M still seemed like a lot of memory to me in
1990.

JCE