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From: mwm@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike (My watch has windows) Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: CBM and upgrade paths
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Date: Thu, 12-Nov-87 23:37:39 EST
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In article <2718@cbmvax.UUCP> andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel) writes:
<4 is the key for you...as I said, I have used a Zorro backplane
<connected to my A1000 and have both A1000 and A2000 cards plugged in,
<and have had no problems.  You could do the same, and thus
<have access to whatever A2000 cards are around.

Fine. So where do I buy Zorro II backplanes without having to buy a new
computer I don't particularly want?

<(and it is confusing the issues
<in your posting; what you seem to want is the ability to
<connect two backplanes, see warning above)

You're right - what *I* want is the ability to connect to Zorro
backplanes. But others will (do, from the postings regarding hacks to
various SOTS boxes, whether they pass the bus or not) want to connect
a SOTS to a Zorro backplane. True, it won't work very well; it never
really did. But if CBM had an 86-pin connector on the A2000, it'd have
a *much* better chance of working than it does now.

	<mike
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