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Tecmar T-disk / T-connect / T-card Amiga 1000 peripherals
« on: June 03, 2015, 12:45:44 PM »
Hi,

Does anyone have a Tecmar T-disk hard disk for the A1000? It connects to a T-connect or T-card unit that plugs into the A1000 expansion port.

I'd like to see pictures of the chips/boards inside the T-connect / T-card and T-disk units. I'm reverse-engineering the Tecmar software to figure out how the hardware works, in the hope that emulation of it can be added to a future version of WinUAE. Being able to see which chips are used will help with that. For example, I could see which type of clock chip it uses.

[This is all mainly of interest for historical purposes. The Tecmar hardware seems to use a sort-of embryonic version of the final Amiga expansion specification, and was the first Amiga hard drive. Quite an achievement, since back then with Kickstart 1.1 there was no expansion.library or C:Mount command.]