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Re: Amiga 1000 Escort 2 Zorro box questions
« on: May 13, 2011, 01:47:22 AM »
Zorro expansion was always meant to be 100-pin. So your Zorro I backplane expansion is the same as the Zorro II backplane of the A2000.

The 86-pin edge connector was a quick and dirty cost reduction effort that can be brought back out into the full 100-pin bus.  

The card bay and slot layout likely looks odd becuse the early standard for Zorro had the cards in a different form-facor than the A2000 eventually got.

To see what Zorro was originaly meant to look like, check out a BytebyByte PAL expansion chasis.  It's a clone of the original miga design AFAIK.