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From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Hardware Reference
Message-ID: <20263@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 2 Apr 91 15:38:11 GMT
References: <17917@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>
Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <17917@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> dlou@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Dennis Lou) writes:

>What do you hardware types out there use for reference?

What you want is the A500/A2000 Technical Reference Manual, which is 
available directly from Commodore.  They post details on how to order this
around here every so often, but I don't have them handy.  It's about $40.
This includes Zorro II specifications, examples designs, schematics, bridge
card stuff, and lots of various notes.  Not as organized as the Addison
Wesley books, but What You Need for hardware hacking.  Mine is quite used
and abused.

>My room mate's Commodore supplied Amiga Hardware Reference Manual is
>a joke (it's the old white one).  

The original Hardware Reference Manual is essentially a hardware manual for
software people.  This contains many of the details lots of manufacturers
prefer to hide from you, but it's absolutely not for building hardware.  I
hope someday they include real hardware information in this book, or perhaps
release another hardware book.  You should be able to get the hardware info
down at your local book store rather than having to order it from C=.

-- 
Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests"
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