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From: a665@mindlink.UUCP (Anthon Pang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: IBM cards in the Amiga
Message-ID: <2589@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jul 90 01:48:01 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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In msg <13381@cbmvax.commodore.com>, daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
writes:
> In article <1990Jul20.172301.6908@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
> rbharding@trillium.uwaterloo.ca (Ron Harding) writes:
> 
> >    Just imagine the possibilities if this is do-able!  There are
> quadrillions
> >of cards for the IBM PC in the world.  There are only a handful of Zorro
> >cards.  With this card, you could have internal modem cards, fax modems,
> >extra video cards (VGA or whatever), any network card (Ethernet, Token-
> >ring, Arcnet, etc), A/Ds and D/As.
> 
> But there certainly are quite a few good IBM
> cards out there.  This has at least the potential of ASDG's Twin-X card,
> probably more potential if it also works in an A2000 (eg, more PC slots
> available).  I've been a fan of this idea for years, and think it has
> definite
> commercial potential, expecially if whomever builds it can write some Amiga
> device drivers for some of the more popular PC plugins.

This sounds just like the AX-S Expansion System (vaporware?) that Spirit
Technology Corp has been "announcing" for months.  See page 138 of the 1990
Spring/Summer Amazing Computing Buyer's Guide...reprinted without permission:
        A hardware adaptor/interpreter that interfaces the
        Amiga Bus Structure/Expansion Port to the PC industry's
        PC/XT and AT Bus standars.  AX-S Interface Board allows
        Amiga and AmigaDOS to utilize the low cost cards
        available for PC/XT and AT systems.  AX-S connects Amiga's
        Bus/Expansion Port to a chassis with a heavy duty 200W
        power supply, ventilation fan, 7 plug-in slots, 6 PC/XT-AT
        bus slots and one OCTABYTE MB RAM expansion slot, multiple
        peripheral drive bays, hard drive power connectors, and an
        optional power cord for A500.  Included with the chassis
        motherboard is the AX-S Interpreter board with DMA
        controllers, InterRupT (sic) controllers DATA buffers and
        Amiga Bus to PC/XT-AT Bus buffer drivers.  Price
        unavailable.

I think Spirit Tech can still be reached at:
        Sprit Technology Corp
        220 W. 2950 S.
        Salt Lake City, UT 84115
        (201) 307-9099 / FAX (201) 307-9404