Your favorite classic Amiga expansion hardware?

[JimS]

I'd have to go with my Phoenix expansion box for my A1000. This gave me 2 ZorroII slots on my A1000. First I plugged in a 2058 Ram card - that let me install my bootup stuff to RAD for quick rebooting even before I got a hard drive... Then I added a Trumpcard with a surplus 52MB Quantum drive... wow! such space. :-)

The Video Toaster gets the nod on the 2000 end. It's just too cool, even though I don't have much use for it myself..

[JimS]

drwho wrote:
The only thing that I can complain about is that it made the A500, which was already not very "desk friendly", really, really long. I had a hard time finding a stable place to put it with that box hanging off the side.

- Mike

You should have seen my A1000 with the Phoenix expansion box attached. It made the beast about 8" wider. I had a desk with a hutch which included a monitor stand just wide enough for the 1000 under it. I took out the center piece and cut off the bottom 3" to allow the connection to work. Some extra metal bracing kept the monitor shelf in place. Ugly, but it worked.

-Jim

[JimS]

jjans wrote:
I can relate to that as I ripped out the inards of an old 486 desktop, filled it full of hardrives and a cd-burner, and added it to my A530. Thank god for printer stands...

Back in the Elder Days, a guy at the local user group had a Bill's boards expander for the A1000. This beast was essentially a passive Zorro & ISA backplane that hooked up to the A1000's side bus. It lived in a PC desktop case of it's own. Talk about an awkward arrangement.

-Jim