Amiga Hardware DatabaseManufacturer “California Access”
2 expansions in database
Manufacturer California Access, USA | Date 1990 | Amiga A500 | Interface side expansion port |
- expansion chassis
- a large metal box with plastic faceplate, sitting behind and overhanging the A500 - overall it's a bit larger than an A2000
- only the A500's keyboard and floppy are exposed
- connects to the side expansion port - no passthrough connector
- four Zorro II slots
- three ISA slots inline with the top three Zorro slots
- cards are mounted horizontally
- the Zorro expansion bus is buffered, closely emulating the A2000 bus design
- two 5.25" front drive bays
- one 3.5" internal drive bay
- optional mounting kit for installing a California Access CA-880 external floppy drive internally - the drive is connected to the A500's DB23 external floppy connector
- 200 watt internal power supply with monitor power connector
- power and hard disk activity LEDs
- does not give full A2000 capabilities to the A500 - it lacks CPU and video slots
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1990-12
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1990-12
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1991-01
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1991-07
Manufacturer California Access, USA | Date 1990 | Amiga A2000, A3000, A4000 | Interface Zorro II | Autoconfig ID 2021 / 12065 / 1 |
- SCSI controller
- 50 pin internal header
- DB25 external connector
- place for a 3.5" hard disk on the card
- autoboot ROM (Malibu.device) - autobooting requires at least Kickstart 1.3
- RDB compatible
- optional memory board - Catalina Card
- eight SIMM sockets accept up to 8 MB RAM
- supports 1 MB SIMMs
- possible configurations are 2, 4 or 8 MB
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1990-12