Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!daveh
From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: The new A500/030
Message-ID: <15179@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 16 Oct 90 16:56:17 GMT
References: <1990Oct11.140806.9376@canterbury.ac.nz>
Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1990Oct11.140806.9376@canterbury.ac.nz> elec135@canterbury.ac.nz writes:

>I bought myself a 2630 card and installed it on my A500.  It only requires one
>hardware modification on the main board - the 7Meg signal has to come out to
>the expansion socket.  By making a small board which contains two 86 pin
>sockets I could plug the 2630 board in.

Hey, great.  George Robbins wanted me to try that out years ago, but I never
got to it.  Glad to hear it works (it really should, the A500 edge connector
is very much like the A2000 CPU slot).  The only other big difference is that
the A2630 takes over from the on-board CPU via the BOSS* signal, rather than
BGACK*.  For the purposes of an A500, BOSS* could be tied to BGACK* at the A500
edge connector.

>- Mark  (tomlinson@elec.canterbury.ac.nz)

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