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From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: A3500 ??
Keywords: sheesh!
Message-ID: <17909@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 22 Jan 91 18:43:43 GMT
References: <665@tronsbox.xei.com> <1991Jan17.050949.11038@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <4708@vela.acs.oakland.edu> <15794@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>
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Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <15794@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> cleland@sdbio2.ucsd.edu (Thomas Cleland) writes:
>To the best of my knowledge, NewTek exceeded Commodores
>specifications  (as opposed to available space).  They wouldn't
>be the only company to do so.  

That's true.

>CBM made the 3000 pretty close to minimum specified size, 

That's not true.  The video card specifications let you build a card no longer
than 210mm.  The A3000's video card, being in-line with a Zorro III slot, can
be 337.19mm long.  It turns out, if you build the longest card that can be
crammed into an A2000 video slot, you're just a little (my guess, looking at 
my 2000 here, is about 20-30mm) over the size the A3000 will physically allow.
Connector space on the video card is specified for an 84mm region, out of
something slightly less than 114mm you might be able to cram onto the back of
the card (leaving screw clearance, of course).  The A3000/ZorroII/ZorroIII
end connector leaved 93.75mm of space for connectors.

>Not that that's really an issue now.  I have heard that 
>Toaster's in the A3000 (hanging out the back...)  

It would hang out the front, and you might have to chop a little A3000 case to 
fit all the connectors in the back.

>   //  / Thom Cleland                       / It is easier        /

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