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- From: bull@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: IBM internal modem in Amiga
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.170629.90928@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 17:06:29 +1100
- References: <1993Jan9.020658.28541@samba.oit.unc.edu> <C0o2Jx.A26@news.cs.andrews.edu>
- Organization: Computer Centre, Monash University, Australia
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- adap@edmund.cs.andrews.edu (Edsel Adap) writes:
- > Andy.Church@launchpad.unc.edu (Andy Church) writes:
- >>
- >>I've got a leftover 2400-baud internal modem from my father's IBM PC.
- >>I want to install it in my Amiga 2000, but I don't know of any
- >>software that supports a modem in one of the IBM slots. Does anyone
- >>know of any such software?
- >>
- >
- > I'm interested too. e-mail to adap@andrews.edu
-
- There's a tiny problem here. The CPU in the Amiga can't talk
- to the AT bus in the A2000, A3000 or A4000. The AT bus is seperate
- and the only way to use PC cards is to get a "bridgeboard" which will
- connect the Zorro bus to the AT bus. The AT bus gets power from the
- internal power supply, but the data and address lines are seperated
- from the Amiga's data and address lines.
-
- On the subject of bridgeboards, I saw a photo of a '486
- bridgeboard made by the German company Vortex. I didn't pay attention
- to the specs or price. Vortex also make a '386 bridgeboard (again, I
- don't have specs or price). I know nothing about how reliable or
- compatible the Vortex boards are compared to a standard PC box.
-
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