Amiga Hardware DatabaseManufacturer Tecmar, USA | Date 1986 | Amiga A1000 | Interface side expansion port |
- SASI Controller
- the first hard disk for the Amiga
- SASI (Shugart Associates System Interface) is the predecessor of SCSI
- the original driver software does not support Kickstart 1.3 and the Fast File System
- DB37 connector for the T-Disk and T-Tape units
- T-Disk contains a SASI to ST-506 adaptor card and a ST-506 hard disk drive
- T-Tape was never released
- does not autoboot
- does not support the RDB standard
- Memory Expansion
- 32 DIP sockets for 256 kB or 1 MB RAM
- takes 64k×4 or 256k×1 DIPs
- does not autoconfig
- Notes
- being the first on the market and thus having no competition, T-Card (and T-Disk) was very overpriced
- DB25 serial port intended for the T-Modem, which was never released
- battery backed up clock
- connects to the side expansion port - no passthrough connector
- obscures the mouse and joystick ports and reroutes them to the front of the unit
- external power supply - powers both the T-Card and the T-Disk
- Tecmar-12.dms
Install Disk for T-Disk + T-Card
System Software v1.2 (04.11.1986), t-disk.device v1.0f (26.01.87), sasi.device v1.2a (26.01.87)
78 kB
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