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From: wille@frith.msu.edu (Jeffrey M. Wille)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Hacking another XT slot on an A3000
Summary: Can I add an XT slot internally?
Keywords: A3000, hardware, expansion
Message-ID: <1991Apr25.220049.15163@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
Date: 25 Apr 91 22:00:49 GMT
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Originator: wille@frith.egr.msu.edu

I'm in desperate need of an additional XT slot on my A3000 and
I would like to know if the following ought to work (in theory
of course).  I won't blame you if it doesn't. :-) 

Could I attach a ribbon cable to the contacts of the lowest XT
connector and hook up another card-edge connector in the empty
space to the left of the bottom Amiga slot connector?

Ascii photograph follows:

--------Normal Configuration:---------------------------------

 Video     [=======][======]       [===============] \
                                                      \
         [==========][========]    [===============]   \  Amiga
AT    /                                                 >
Slots \  [==========][========]    [===============]   /  Slots
                                                      /
          empty space              [===============] /

--------Proposed Configuration:-------------------------------

           [=======][======]       [===============]

         [==========][========]    [===============]

         [==========][========]    [===============]
Ribbon    |||||||||| 
         [==========]              [===============] 
                  
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What do the net gurus say?  Will it work?  Dave Haynie maybe?

			Jeff Wille (wille@frith.egr.msu.edu)
				   (wille@happy.egr.msu.edu)

Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything.   -- Gregg Easterbrook