Amiga Hardware DatabaseManufacturer “Pacific Peripherals”
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Manufacturer Pacific Peripherals, USA | Date 1987 | Amiga A1000 | Interface side expansion port |
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1987-04
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1987-07
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1987-11
Manufacturer Pacific Peripherals / Interactive Video Systems, USA | Date 1987 | Amiga A2000, A3000, A4000 | Interface Zorro II | Autoconfig ID 2112 / 16 |
- SCSI controller
- Motorola 68440 DMA controller IC
- early revisions have no autoboot ROM but they can be upgraded with the OverDrive Autoboot Retrofit daughterboard:
- connects into the sockets of U102, U104, U110, U115
- the PAL in U110 is replaced, the other three chips are reused on the daugtherboard
- place for a 3.5" hard disk on the card
- 50 pin internal header
- DB25 external connector
front side
OverDrive Autoboot Retrofit, front side
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1988-01
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1988-04
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1988-10
Manufacturer 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 - the cable for it is fed through an opening at the rear and connected to the disk port of the A500 / A1000
- supplied with a heavy-duty external 5V power supply that plugs into rear DIN-type power connector
- connects to the side expansion port, the expansion port is passed through
- expansion is 1.5" tall and fits under the Amiga
- the Amiga is placed onto the expansion - the manufacturer claims better keyboard usability with the raised Amiga, akin to typewriters
- supplied with optional 2 MB RAM card The Advantage
SubSystem 500, front side
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1987-11
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1988-01
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1988-10
Manufacturer Pacific Peripherals, USA | Date 1987 | Amiga A2000, A3000, A4000 | Interface Zorro II | Autoconfig ID 2112 / 2 |
- RAM Expansion
- 64 DIP sockets for up to 2 MB FastRAM
- supports 0.5, 1 or 2 MB configurations
- uses 256k×1 DIPs
- possible option for the Cage II Zorro I expansion chassis and the SubSystem 500 / 1000 Zorro II expansion chassis
- autoconfig
- zero wait states design
- as OEM design also sold as Xpander II 2 MB RAM by Pacific Cypress
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1987-04
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1987-07
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1987-11
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1988-01