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Offline drwhoTopic starter

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Amiga 3000(D) ROM Sockets
« on: May 07, 2004, 03:38:25 PM »
Does anyone know why there are 4 sockets on the A3000 mainboard for ROMs? Is there something more that can go in there?

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Offline Ilwrath

Re: Amiga 3000(D) ROM Sockets
« Reply #1 on: May 07, 2004, 06:02:12 PM »
I think the A3000 was going to have a built-in ROM switcher at one point in time.  Don't think the circuitry needed for this is on the motherboard, though.
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Re: Amiga 3000(D) ROM Sockets
« Reply #2 on: May 08, 2004, 06:09:03 PM »
I was always under the impression they were intended for something to do with running Unix, as some core libraries wouldn't have fitted on two :-?
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Re: Amiga 3000(D) ROM Sockets
« Reply #3 on: May 08, 2004, 07:57:39 PM »
Those extra sets were intended as a future upgrade, but they never did anything with it. They are just dead sockets and were actually removed on later revisions of the boards. Just the solder pads remained.
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