Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!van-bc! From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: TrumpCard 500 on a 1000? Message-ID: <2296@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> Date: 1 Dec 90 03:41:49 GMT Lines: 50 Return-Path: To: van-bc!rnews In <16008@chopin.udel.edu>, jeremym@chopin.udel.edu (Jeremy A Moskowitz) writes: > >If the 500 has the bus port on it's leftside, and the trumpcard >has female fingers on it's left side... it'll go right into the 500,right? >Right. That's what it was designed for. > >If the 1000 has the bus port on it's RIGHTSIDE, the and the TC >has the same setup, then how the hell are ya gonna get it in there? >Flip it and turn it around? WRONG! Even if you could do that, >It'll 1) be awkward > 2) not work anyway because WE'RE TALKING ZORRO here... Funny, not only can you flip the A590 around and plug it into the A1000, but when you do it, it works just fine. >does anyone follow my logic! What logic? "It'll be awkward" does not answer the question "WE'RE TALKING ZORRO here...' is a non-sequiter that provides no information content at all. >Bottom line dude: 1) Should asked before ya ordered > 2) the product is named Trumpcard 500 > *NOT* Trumpcard 1000, so, take > a guess on the compatibility there, pal. If I were to take a guess, I would say that it should work, based on what I know about the expansion schemes of the 500 and the 1000, and on the proven workability of the A590, Dude. > 3) Run to your phone, call the dealer you > bought this thing from and go buy yourself > a nice, slow, A1000 Supra-Board. It'll > work and it'll be just what a 1000 > user needs. While this may be a solution to his problem, pal, it may not be the only one. -larry -- The only things to survive a nuclear war will be cockroaches and IBM PCs. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | // Larry Phillips | | \X/ lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips | | COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322 -or- 76703.4322@compuserve.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+