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From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Wish I had an Amiga 1500
Message-ID: <7346@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jul 89 16:33:39 GMT
References: <222@kesmai.COM>
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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in article <222@kesmai.COM>, dca@kesmai.COM (David C. Albrecht) says:

> As an aside, I do kind of wonder why Commodore didn't at least put PC traces
> in on the 2000 motherboard so you could put in connectors ala. the AT slots
> and use all of the slots for Amiga cards if you wanted to get crazy with a
> soldering iron.

Two simple reasons, both of which have been mentioned before:

[1]	The Buster chip only supports 5 expansion slots.
[2]	Even if it supported more, there's no room left for a 6th slot --
	that room is occupied by bus termination components and a mounting
	hole.

> David Albrecht

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