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From: gmb@iclswe.icl.se (Grahame Budd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A1500 expansion box for A500?
Message-ID: <1990Jul12.120536.26261@iclswe.icl.se>
Date: 12 Jul 90 12:05:36 GMT
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withers@nitmoi.enet.dec.com (George Withers) writes:

>Has anyone got any information, pros or cons, on the UK's A1500
>expansion box for the A500?

The basic box gives you the a2000 video and cpu slots, an extra box gives three
ZORRO II slots. The keyboard is in a seperate box and the A500 case is discarded
after being dis-carded.

There is no Bridgeboard facility, (the designers comment was that the Amiga sw
was better so why bother).

From what I've seen the box is sturdy and attractive. It looks very Amiga like.

The unit costs about 200 quid for the basic box, keyboard box and leads. The 3
slot box is about 150 more. 

One additional point: the keyboard box is available by itself complete with a
blanking plate for the subsequent hole in the A500 case. This is rumored to
cost about 50 pounds.