Amiga Hardware DatabaseManufacturer Byte by Byte, USA | Date 1986 & 1987 | Amiga A1000 | Interface side expansion port |
- Zorro I Expansion Chassis
- PAL:
- 5× Zorro I slots
- 3× 5.25" drive bays
- internal power supply
- PAL Jr:
- 2× Zorro I slots
- 1× 5.25" drive bay
- 90 Watt internal power supply
- 8 MB RAM card (Garganturam) and hard disk controller offered as an option for the Zorro I slots
- the backplane, RAM and HD controller cards are based on Commodore Amiga reference designs
- the Zorro slots are buffered and support DMA cards
- 1 MB FastRAM on the backplane board - 32 256k×1 DIPs
- battery backed up clock
- connects to the A1000 side expansion port
- sits on top of the A1000
- the Amiga power cord must be plugged into the PAL / PAL Jr, so it can control the power up sequence
- SCSI / ST-506 controller card
- electrically identical to the Commodore A2090 controller card, except for the SCSI part, which was not completely finished at the time
- uses DMA transfers
- does not support the RDB standard
- does not autoboot
- 50 pin internal SCSI connector
- DB25 external connector
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back side
Advert PAL (US)
1986-07
Advert PAL (US)
1986-09
Advert (US)
1986-11
Advert (US)
1987-01
Advert PAL Jr. (US)
1987-05
Advert PAL Jr. (US)
1987-07