Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!mtunh!mkd From: mkd@mtunh.ATT.COM (Mark Darby) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Card Cages and extra serial port support for A500 Keywords: Amiga expansion serial port A500 Message-ID: <656@mtunh.ATT.COM> Date: 19 May 89 13:09:05 GMT Reply-To: mkd@mtunh.UUCP (Mark Darby) Distribution: na Organization: AT&T ISL Middletown NJ USA Lines: 36 Since it's been a while since my last post on my subject, I hope that there will be some people who will be able to answer my question about a particular setup that I want to achieve with my Amiga. I know that there are at least a couple (possibly more???) implementations of multiple serial ports available for the Amiga 2000. They are both from ASDG and from what I hear, I see nothing but praise for the quality of their products. I have an Amiga 500, and I understand the limitations of it's expansion capabilities. I want to expand the machine to support multiple serial ports, and I can get this by getting one of the ASDG products (my preference is the $299 (?) Dual serial board). However, I need some sort of expansion "cage" to support the A2000 form factor card. I harassed Perry/ASDG on the net regarding whether the board would work in one of the available cages for the 500. I even bugged him at the New York AmiExpo. He hadn't tried it on one of the available expansion cages (Tool Box, Bus Expander, a box from Phoenix Tech(??), etc.) though he had tested the board with a 500 in old cages which originally held A1000 expansion cards but the sides had to be cut away to hold the A2000 form factor. So now I ask..to Perry/ASDG, to the net here... Has anyone successfully used a multiport serial board with a 500 in one of the currently available expansion cages for the 500? Thanks in advance for any information that anyone can give me!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark K. Darby AT&T Bell Laboratories AT&T: (201)957-2706 200 Laurel Ave. uucp:..!att!mtunh!mkd Middletown, NJ 07748