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- From: burkert1@platon.fmi.uni-passau.de (Klaus Burkert)
- Subject: Re: A600 HD ?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.222623.1454@tom.rz.uni-passau.de>
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- References: <1992Jul29.195443.23197@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de> <1992Jul29.205736.18188@ulowell.ulowell.edu> <1992Jul30.100213.998@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 22:26:23 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul30.100213.998@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de> mlelstv@specklec.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst) writes:
- >In <1992Jul29.205736.18188@ulowell.ulowell.edu> mmoore@cs.ulowell.edu (Michael P. Moore) writes:
- >
- >>> I (mlelstv) wrote:
- >>>No Zorro.. (the A500 hadn't a Zorro slot either). You will find more
- >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >
- >>The A500 and A1000 both have a zorro slot. According to the a500/a2000 tech
- >>manual, the slot on the side of the a500 and the a1000 are Zorro I slots
- >>That's why the a2000 has Zorro II slots and the a3000 has Zorro III.
- >
- >Dunno what is in you tech manual. But Zorro-I was a 100 pin bus most
- >identical to Zorro-II. If I remember right it didn't have the coprocessor
- >slot specs and it did use a quite different form factor. One of the
- >first expansions (the Turbo A1000 from CSA ?) did use a Zorro-I expansion
- >box.
-
- The a500/a2000 tech manual describes building a Zorro(I) backplane and how
- to wire it towards the A500 (not sure about the latter).
- This backplane-stuff is implemented on the A2000/3000's motherboard and
- extended to ZorroII or III respectively.
-
- Ciao, Klaus.
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