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From: galpin@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Dan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: IBM cards in the Amiga
Summary: AX/S Sighted.
Keywords: AX/S IBM ISA expansion cheap
Message-ID: <5402@darkstar.ucsc.edu>
Date: 24 Jul 90 11:24:55 GMT
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In article <2589@mindlink.UUCP> a665@mindlink.UUCP (Anthon Pang) writes:
>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.
>
>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
>
>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

The Spirit people were demoing this beast at AmiEXPO Santa Clara last year.

There apparently are two models.. one that gives you the case, slots,
power supply, etc.. for the A500. This is the one that they had at
AmiEXPO. The other model supposedly fits inside the A2000 and allows
the use of IBM PC peripherals in the bridgeboard slots. As I remember,
the list price for the 2000 compatible board was supposed to be around
$255. Both products were set to come with "standard" device drivers for
hard drive interfaces, serial ports + internal modems, and some sort of 
system where the end user could create their own driver for a board not
directly supported.

I haven't heard anything of this since.

-Dan

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