Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ncar!gatech!udel!haven!decuac!bacchus.pa.dec.com!bacchus!mwm From: mwm@raven.relay.pa.dec.com (Mike (My Watch Has Windows) Meyer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Wrong board size for Amiga 3000 Message-ID: Date: 23 Oct 90 02:06:04 GMT References: <5086@crash.cts.com> <15326@cbmvax.commodore.com> Sender: news@wrl.dec.com (News) Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica Lines: 31 In-Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com's message of 22 Oct 90 21:48:22 GMT In article <15326@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes: >Nuts, the slots don't even chew up space on the the motherboard. The Motherboard has 1 Buster Chip and 10 TTL buffers to drive the expansion bus, along with of course the two connectors. Not entirely trivial in the board space it uses, though it's not a really expensive feature. Actually, what I meant was that the slots beyond the first don't chew up space on the motherboard. I assumed that that reducing the number of slots on the daughterboard wouldn't reduce the motherboard real estate. >So hey, DaveH - how about a "slot terminator" for the A3000 (if >needed), along with a drive tray suitable for holding low profile >(half-height, maybe?) 5 1/4" drives (especially tape drives!). How many drives do you need?!? Depends on how big each one is :-), but I had 3 on my 2000 (not counting the 2 floppies). What I'd really like is room for a QIC tape, or something similar. I don't think there's room for one on the current drive tray. What's CBM doing about the tape drives on the A3000UX? The real trouble that would cause is that these 5.25" drives especially need lots of +12V, which you don't get in the A3000. So add a 12V power supply to my order :-). To bad, though.