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Offline Darrin

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Re: Expansion Technologies Escort for A500
« on: April 22, 2013, 01:48:07 AM »
Never seen one either.  

Here's the manual for the Escort 2 (which seems to contain 2 slots which will either take 2 x 2MB RAM cards or 1 x 2MB & SCSI controller (or even other stuff)

I wonder if the one on eBay is an earlier version that simply contains the SCSI controller with no 2nd slot for RAM.
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Re: Expansion Technologies Escort for A500
« Reply #1 on: April 22, 2013, 06:00:11 AM »
My link vanished.  Those remaining ones are auto-generated by this site.

Here's another one for the Escort 2 with downloadable manuals:
http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/escort2

and this seems to be the one on eBay:
http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/escort500

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Escort 500    

Company:  Expansion Technologies, USA   Date:  1987   Amiga A500 Interface side expansion port
 
Zorro I expansion chassis
•two Zorro I slots
•one 5.25" drive bay for the optional hard disk (requires a Zorro I hard disk controller card)
•one 3.5" drive bay for the optional 2nd floppy drive (requires a Zorro I floppy controller card)
•optional internal power supply
•connects to the A500 side expansion port
•sits on top of the A500
•2 MB RAM in 64 DIP sockets
•256k×1 DIPs


I'm wondering if that eBay lisiting is just the controller card that needs to slot into the actual Escort 500 since the description above seems to be for some large "box" that contains a 5.25" and 3.5" bay.
« Last Edit: April 22, 2013, 06:07:51 AM by Darrin »
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