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From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: IBM slots in 2000
Message-ID: <7250@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jul 89 15:08:09 GMT
References: <1174@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu>
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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in article <1174@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu>, jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright) says:

> Is it true that the IBM slots in the 2000 really are a passive backplane?
> If so, would it be possible to use a PC-on-a-card and drop it in?

I'd sure thing so.  The slots are bused and connected to the appropriate power
supply lines, they don't go anywhere else.

> 	Requires addition of video card

Yup, though you could put a VGA card in another slot.

> 	WHERE TO PUT KEYBOARD?  (I think this is a killer)

Unless the PC-on-a-Card has a keyboard connector.  I expect that any such card
designed as a PC accelerator won't be a whole PC, but that something designed
more for actual passive PC backplanes would have to have some I/O on itself.

> Jim Wright
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