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Apollo 500 |
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Company
3-State, Germany | | Date
1992 | | Amiga
A500
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side expansion port
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SCSI 2 and IDE controller
- uses polled I/O instead of DMA transfer
- autoboot ROM (SCSI-Apollo.device) - autobooting requires at least Kickstart 1.3
- support for Rigid Disk Block and Direct SCSI
- place for a 3.5" hard disk inside the case
- internal 50 pin SCSI header and 40 pin IDE header
- external DB25 SCSI connector
- hard disk activity LED
memory
- sixteen ZIP sockets accept 8 MB RAM
- supports 1M×4 FastPage or Static Column ZIPs
- accepts ZIPs in groups of four giving 2, 4, 6 or 8 MB RAM
- two 30 pin SIP sockets accept 2 MB RAM
- the SIP sockets are hardwired to the first bank of ZIP sockets, they cannot be used at the same time
notes
- 86 pin internal expansion header for the Apollo 520 accelerator board
- connects to the side expansion port, no passthrough connector
- disable switch on the back of the case
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