Amiga Hardware DatabaseManufacturer “Expansion Technologies”
5 expansions in database
Manufacturer Expansion Technologies, USA | Date 1987 | Amiga A1000 | Interface side expansion port |
- Zorro I Expansion Chassis
- external upright case which provides two Zorro I slots - one is occupied with the 2 MB RAM card
- the slots are not buffered
- connects to the A1000 side expansion port
- passthrough connector to allow other expansion be attached to the side port
- optional external power supply (9V/1A), required for using the 2nd slot
- power LED indicator on front panel
- Notes
- the memory board in slot 1 generates clock signal for the bus and is required for the second slot to be compliant to the Zorro standard
- second slot could be used to add another Escort 2 RAM board (4 MB FastRAM in total), or to install an ST506 controller card - Escort 2HD
- if ST506 controller is used, the 5.25" hard disk is mounted in an external upright case of the same size as the Escort 2 chassis
- installing a second 4 MB board requires cutting 3 jumper links on the board
front side
Adapter Board, top side
RAM card, front side
- Escort2_a.pdf
user manual
45 kB - Escort2_b.pdf
user manual
35 kB
Advert (US)
1987-05
Advert (US)
1988-03
Manufacturer Expansion Technologies, USA | Date 1987 | Amiga A1000 | Interface Zorro I | Autoconfig ID 1004 / 14 |
- Memory Expansion
- internal expansion card for the Zorro I bus
- 64 DIP sockets for up to 2 MB FastRAM
- supports 0.5, 1 or 2 MB configurations
- uses 256k×1 DIPs
- supports Autoconfig
- zero wait states design
- Notes
- generates 3 signals and feeds it to the Zorro I bus: DBOE* (pin 93), 7 MHz (pin 92) and RESETB* (pin 94) - three on-board jumpers can be cut to prevent that
- supplied as standard with the Escort 2 expansion chassis
- hardware identical to the Xpander II 2 MB RAM card by Pacific Cypress
- DIP switch settings
| 1 OFF OFF ON ON |
2 OFF ON OFF ON |
- 2 MB - 1 MB - reserved - 512 kB |
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back side
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back side
Manufacturer Expansion Technologies, USA | Date 1987 | Amiga A500 | Interface side expansion port |
- Zorro I expansion chassis
- two Zorro I slots
- one 5.25" drive bay for the optional hard disk (requires a Zorro I hard disk controller card)
- one 3.5" drive bay for the optional 2nd floppy drive (requires a Zorro I floppy controller card)
- optional internal power supply
- connects to the A500 side expansion port
- sits on top of the A500
- RAM card (
- 2 MB RAM in 64 DIP sockets
- 256k×1 DIPs
)
Advert (US)
1987-09
Advert (US)
1988-03
Manufacturer Expansion Technologies, USA | Date 1989 | Amiga A2000, A3000, A4000 | Interface Zorro II |
- Flash!Card is a name variation of the Phoenix PHC-2000 SCSI controller
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back side
Advert (US)
1989-01
Manufacturer Expansion Technologies, USA | Date 1989 | Amiga A1000, A500 | Interface side expansion port |
- ToolBox is a name variation of the Phoenix Expansion Chassis
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back side
Advert (US)
1989-01
Advert (US)
1989-03
Advert (US)
1989-08