A500 A1000 Clockports ?

[giZmo350]

I bought one along with the Subway USB controller for my A500. 1st thing is that the clockport sits a tad too high and the keyboard hits the front edge after installation. Since the clockport socket is near the rear of the board, if you press too hard on the keyboard, it will rock the board out of its socket. Second, unless you're going to use WB3.1/3.5/3.9 you need to install the Anaiis USB stack. I simply could not figure out how to get the Anaiis software installed so never got the Subway working on the A500 with WB2.1.

I did also get a ROM switcher so that I could use KS3.1 and the supplied Trident software with the clockport & Subway but I haven't got a 3.1 ROM yet either.

Which brings me to A500 hard drive issues. I have an A590 with only WB2.1 and I keep thinking that it's not worth the time and trouble to install two OS's until the ACA520 comes allowing IDE CF option.

So, at this point, barring some sort of modification so the keyboard doesn't keep popping the clockport board out of it's socket, I'm hoping that Jens gets the ACA520 to market soon.

Rog.....

[giZmo350]

Good info Gizmo. So not such a good fit for A500. Checking out the Anaiis ...
 
ACA520 - would be nice. We need to clone Jens S. I think that is the answer to so many of our hardware shortages. There's a joint down the road here, Glaxo Smith Kline? I think they do some cloning.
 

Yeah, cloning people good, cloning food bad! Ha....
After fiddling around with the clockport in the A500 it occured to me that the clockport should work with no problems in an A2000. So I removed everything from the A500 and checked for fit. Well, seemed like a good idea (other then spending more $$ on a Deneb) but there's too many components in the way to fit the clockport onto the 68K socket. If a guy used about 3 or 4 68K socket risers it would fit great. and would be just as usable as the Deneb.
 
Rog...........