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From: davem@hp-lsd.COS.HP.COM (Dave K. Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Bomarc tower case ???
Message-ID: <19620009@hp-lsd.COS.HP.COM>
Date: 2 Jan 91 19:58:37 GMT
References: <277A36A1.27508@ics.uci.edu>
Organization: HP Logic Systems Division - ColoSpgs, CO
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The VP of our local Amiga club has put an A-500 motherboard into an
A-1000 case.  He also installed two 7/8" high floppy drives where the 
original drive was.  He calls it his Amiga 750.

In order to do this, he had to cut about 3/4" off the right side of the 
A-500 motherboard and jumper over any cut traces.  None of the I/O ports 
on the motherboard line up on the back panel so he just cut a long slot
in the back of the case.  He is using the A-1000 keyboard but it is not 
fully compatable, he cannot reboot with CTRL-AMIGA-AMIGA, but has to cycle
power.  The A-1000 power supply was retained.  The 512k memory board 
can't be installed so he had to hack in an above the motherboard memory 
expansion.  Forget about any sort of expansion bus as the connector is 
next to the power supply.

There are a (few) other bits of weirdness about this machine but they 
escape me at the moment.
All in all, it seems to be an awful lot of work for very little gain.





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