What da heck is this A500 side expansion board ???

[Effy]

I found something that I can not find any info of on The Big Book Of Hardware :



Are these Zorro slots or cpu slots like the A2000 has  :-?

[Effy]

So it´s like a cartridgeport-expander for a C64 Doesn´t seem very useful as the most obvious thing I can imagine to connect is an external harddrive, from which most are scsi so they do allow you to connect 7 devices to one cable, so I don´t see that use of using more than one external drive ... please do correct me if I´m wrong !!!!

[Effy]

Tempest : okay, I can see the use of one A2000 cpu board but  why five If they are also seen as side expansion slots then you can also mount an external A590 harddrive unit to them but what about the other three that you are not using Is there something about A2000 hardware that I don´t know of  :-?

[Effy]

So if I get this correct, with such a card and an A500+ with  1 Mb extra chip you can insert an A2630 68030 board but no gfx card  :-? I still have got a never used A500 pc keyboard adapter so like you said it might be useful for a tower conversion ...

[Effy]

Thanks for the info Tempest. I guess this expansion board is a nice way to expand an A500 with an A2000 board with scsi. Thought it also could take Zorro cards but I was a bit too enthousiastic  :lol:

[Effy]

There are a few Zorro busboards for the A500 on the Big Book, so I thought this expander was one of them ... that´s why I asked this info about this card ...

[Effy]

This object has been sold for 56 Euo a few minutes ago. Saw it yesterday and decided to ask for advice, but at the end I didn´t buy it because it wasn´t what I hoped it would be, thanks again to Tempest  :pint: