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aeberbach · 11 October 2020, 01:50

In your situation I would buy a 2000, much more opportunity for expansion. You’ll also be a lot more familiar with a row of slots coming from Apple II. The ability to install a flicker fixer card should not be underestimated... With the 1200 you have one expansion slot and then you have to resort to clipping things on top of chips for IDE or video expansion. Or you could buy the very expensive backplanes that are available and then you have basically an AGA-capable 2000 (or a bit better considering PCI retargetable video cards) but why not a 4000 if you have spent so much?

If you have the chance to pick up a 2000 grab it, I find they are a lot more rare too.

11 October 2020, 01:50	#2
aeberbach Registered User Join Date: Mar 2019 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 423	In your situation I would buy a 2000, much more opportunity for expansion. You’ll also be a lot more familiar with a row of slots coming from Apple II. The ability to install a flicker fixer card should not be underestimated... With the 1200 you have one expansion slot and then you have to resort to clipping things on top of chips for IDE or video expansion. Or you could buy the very expensive backplanes that are available and then you have basically an AGA-capable 2000 (or a bit better considering PCI retargetable video cards) but why not a 4000 if you have spent so much? If you have the chance to pick up a 2000 grab it, I find they are a lot more rare too.