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- From: peterk@combo.ganesha.com (Dr. Peter Kittel)
- Subject: Re: Amiga Walker (A1200Walker)
- Distribution: world
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
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- References: <ivans-1803960422130001@dialup63.syd1.zeta.org.au>
- Message-ID: <peterk.0lwf@combo.ganesha.com>
- Date: 22 Mar 96 01:39:04 MEZ
- Organization: Private Site
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- In article <ivans-1803960422130001@dialup63.syd1.zeta.org.au> ivans@zeta.org.au (Ivan Smith) writes:
- >
- >People were stating things like "where do you expand it?", what's the
- >keyboard from? how the hell does a tower come from that ? etc....
-
- Keyboard is external, and the connector for it and mouse/joystick are
- at the front for easy access (anyone saying "A2000"?).
-
- >My theories are that you would remove the bottom square part from the top
- >rounder part and insert the tower modules one by one until a fully
- >heighted tower is in place.
-
- Yes. Only that you won't normally stack several modules in the middle
- but choose among differently heighted ones.
-
- > It's also a guess that this "Flex Bus" (aka
- >Zorro4?) is vertically mounted in the middle of the mother board which is
- >contained in the lower square part.
-
- Correct.
-
- > Backplain cards for Z3 and other
- >interfaces are in the modules above it and there would be a direct signal
- >path (diasychain style) through each stacked module to the Flex Bus on the
- >lower section MB.
-
- No, I think stacking and daisy chaining could lead to contact problems.
-
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