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- From: Norm.Barrett@f222.n2613.z1.fidonet.org (Norm Barrett)
- Path: ceas.rochester.edu!rochgte!UUCP
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: RE: Q's about I/O and chi
- Message-ID: <826132810.AA06193@rochgte.fidonet.org>
- Date: Tue, 05 Mar 1996 03:55:00 -0500
- X-FTN-To: Singh
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- Subj: Q's about I/O and chips Date: 03-04-96 Time: 01:19
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- > From: singh@wwa.com (singh)
- > Organization: WorldWide Access (tm) - Chicagoland Internet Services
- > (http://www.wwa.com)
- > I have a card that goes into the PC slot on an amiga that used to be
- > used
- > for mounting a 3/5 inch scsi drive. I know longer use it for a drive
- > and
- > am wondering if anyone knows about these cards - it has a 25 pin and a
- > 9
- > pin port on the the back. Are these serial ports? If so, can they be
- > used
- > as a second serial port on my amiga? I don't know anything else about
- > the
- > card execpt that it is made by SIK, Inc and is named I/O Extension A.3
- >
- > If it is possible to use this on the amiga it would make my life a lot
- > easier, as I would be able to print directly from my amiTCP apps...
-
- The 25 Pin is prob a SCSI port for more SSII drives and such.
- The Nine pin may also be a SSCI port for devices that use 9 pin.
- But this is just a quess.
-
- > Second question, I recently upgraded some of the chips in my 3000 to
- > the
- > latest revisions - the ramsey, the dmac, and the buster - as they were
- > fairly old versions. Are the chips I took out compatible with my
- > A2000?
- > I guess I'm asking is it possible to make an OCS A2000 into an ECS
- > A2000
- > as I replace my A3000 chips?
- >
- > Thanks for any help...
- >
- > WaveGirl
- >
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