Realized I have a Zorro II expansion bus on my A1000

[TheGoose]

I always wondered about this big sidecar I have for my A1000. I thought the inside was just memory card slots but no. It's one of these: :-o

SubSystem 1000 & 500          
Company: Pacific Peripherals, USA
Date: 1987
Amiga: A1000, A500
Interface: side expansion port   

    * Zorro II expansion chassis 2× (SubSystem 500) or 3× (SubSystem 1000) Zorro II slots with DMA support
    * 1× 3.5" drive bay for an optional 2nd floppy drive
    * external power supply
    * connects to the side expansion port
    * fits under the Amiga

    * optional RAM card - The Advantage 64 DIP sockets accept up to 2 MB RAM
    * supports 0.5, 1 or 2 MB configurations
    * uses 256k×1 DIPs
    * zero wait states  

I have the 2 MB Advantage card inside. But I don't have the external power supply. Hmmm. Anybody know anything about this thing or the power requirements?

[hardlink]

All the A1000 expansions are Zorro II, at least electrically  The diff between I & II is the form factor, rectangular vs. square. So you must have one of the rectangular ones!
 

[TheGoose]

Well, no. It is a big square box, but I'll be posting pics here and for the hardware sites. They want some pics, there was only one I found and it was bad.

I think this one was for the a500 now. It has only 2 slots, not like the 3 supposedly for the A1000.

I'll post back here soon.

[Terse]

No. It's rectangular (the card form-factor.)  The only Zorro I expansion chasis is the Pal and Pal JR

[TjLaZer]

If it was for the A500 it would mount on the left side of the computer.

[TheGoose]

images (and only a couple of gross coffee drips):

[ZeBeeDee]

Couldn't you get the pictures any smaller? :lol: I only have a 22" widescreen monitor connected to the pc with a resolution of 1680x1050 and they wouldn't even fit on that ... Perhaps I should go out to the shops tomorrow and purchase something like
this to view them on? :lol:

[Jope]

Haha Zorro I goodness.

Rare, but useless.

The slots are electrically compatible with Zorro II, as was mentioned above, but of course they don't fit very well if you plug in a normal full length card.

Check the volts and grounds first with a multimeter, I seem to remember that the Zorro II cards have their end brackets facing the user when you plug them in.. Not 100% certain, so please check before plugging in anything.