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From: dtiberio@libserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A silly question...
Keywords: IBM-PC, Bridgeboard, silly
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Date: 21 Apr 91 22:50:48 GMT
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In article <3216@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU> cdavis@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Charles Davis) writes:
>Now this might be a dumb question, but here goes...
>
>Has anyone considered using those IBM-PC slots in the A2000 (and A3000)
>_WITHOUT_ a bridgeboard?  What I mean is getting a cheap Clone-on-a-board
>and putting it inside the Amiga (much like a cancer tumor?  :^)

>Maybe this is silly (does the A2000 supply power to these slots without
>the Bridgeboard present?), but I was just wondering....

>
>				Charles Michael Davis
>				cdavis@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu
>
>				(No cute signature block!  :^)

  If I remember correctly, the power is not connected unless there is
a Bridgeboard present. Otherwise the only use for these slots is to 
mount hard drives on dead circuit boards plugged into the IBM slots.
I guess you could also hook up an external modem and mount it here.
-- 
    David Tiberio  SUNY Stony Brook 2-3481  AMIGA  DDD-MEN  Tomas Arce 
           Any students from SUNY Oswego? Please let me know! :)

                   Un ragazzo di Casalbordino, Italia.