Amiga Hardware DatabaseManufacturer CompTec, Germany | Date 1988 | Amiga A500, A500+ | Interface special (see text) |
- Desktop Case
- desktop conversion kit for the A500/A500+
- houses the A500 main board as well as two internal 3.5" disk drives and two 3.5" hard drives (or one 5.25" HDD)
- room for internal expansion cards plugged into an optional bus board, attached to the side connector
- the A500 keyboard is installed in a A2000 keyboard case0
- keyboard can be stored below the desktop case when not in use - a design feature similar to the A1000
- internal 130W power supply
- several bus boards (called 'Power Supply Modules') available:
- Power Supply Module A2000: 4× Zorro II slot, 4× ISA slot
- Power Supply Module A2000 + MMU: 3× Zorro II slot, 3× ISA slot, 1× MMU slot, 1× video slot
- Notes
- expansion was marketed under two different names by CompTec - as Arrow 1500 and as Avant 1500
front side
Bus board, front side
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