28 Jun
2001
28 Jun
'01
6:41 p.m.
Nope. Zorro I has 100 pins, just like Zorro II. The
difference is that
the cards are nearly 12" x 12", not PC/ISA shaped. They didn't last long.
The only expansion box I ever saw that used them, lay flat on top of the
A1000, under the monitor, and provided two slots. I don't know if anyone
ever made any Zorro I cards other than FAST RAM.
The 86 pin connector is labeled Zorro on the RevA A500
schematics (the hand drawn ones) and a Zorro to Zorro II
expansion circuit for up to 6 true ZII slots is there as well.
There is no mention of any 12" x 12" form factor boards in
any of the C= technical refs. I have for all the OCS/ECS
machines up to A3000(T)
Lee.
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29 Jun
29 Jun
7:09 a.m.
New subject: Zorro I vs Zorro II (was RE: Whats a reasonable collection?)
--- "Davison, Lee" <Lee.Davison(a)merlincommunications.com> wrote:
There is no mention of any 12" x 12" form
factor boards in
any of the C= technical refs. I have for all the OCS/ECS
machines up to A3000(T)
This would have been in docs dating from 1984 through 1986 at the latest.
When the German A2000 designs came back, _that_ was the first Zorro II
implementation - PC-form-factor cards.
I have personally seen a Zorro I expansion box. It was stolen from the
Ohio State University Physics Demonstration Department days after it
arrived (by a student employee who was later nailed for the break-in
and theft). I know it had a memory card (2Mb IIRC) and it might have
had a SCSI card, but I'm not positive about that. It has been more than
15 years, so I do not remember the brand name.
If I happen to run across any ads in ancient Amiga World magazines, I will
see about scanning one.
-ethan
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7:17 a.m.
New subject: Zorro I vs Zorro II (was RE: Whats a reasonable collection?)
At 12:09 PM 6/29/01 -0700, Ethan Dicks wrote:
I have personally seen a Zorro I expansion box. It was
stolen from the
Ohio State University Physics Demonstration Department days after it
arrived (by a student employee who was later nailed for the break-in
and theft). I know it had a memory card (2Mb IIRC) and it might have
had a SCSI card, but I'm not positive about that. It has been more than
15 years, so I do not remember the brand name.
Wasn't the first made by Byte-by-Byte, quite early on?
Apart from the Sculpt 3D software (they're still selling
last I checked,) they made this device as well as an A1000
joystick-port real-time clock. At the time, their hardware
engineer was Brad Carvey, who later played a large part in
the design of the Video Toaster, a popular video-effects
device that kept the Amiga market alive for several years
beyond the moment it might've died a natural death. :-)
- John
30 Jun
30 Jun
6:04 p.m.
New subject: Zorro I vs Zorro II (was RE: Whats a reasonable collection?)
--- John Foust <jfoust(a)threedee.com> wrote:
At 12:09 PM 6/29/01 -0700, Ethan Dicks wrote:
Perhaps. I remember Sculpt3D (got a couple of copies) and the joystick
clock (there were also parallel-port clocks in that era). It sounds
plausible, though.
-ethan
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I have personally seen a Zorro I expansion box.
It was stolen from the
Ohio State University Physics Demonstration Department...
Wasn't the first made by Byte-by-Byte, quite early on?
2 Jul
2 Jul
1:18 a.m.
New subject: Zorro I vs Zorro II (was RE: Whats a reasonable collection?)
At 11:04 PM 6/30/01 -0700, Ethan Dicks wrote:
I probably have pictures of its launch, somewhere, or they were
published in Amazing Computing. I first met Brad Carvey because
of his work on this expansion box.
- John
At 12:09 PM
6/29/01 -0700, Ethan Dicks wrote:
Perhaps. I remember Sculpt3D (got a couple of copies) and the joystick
clock (there were also parallel-port clocks in that era). It sounds
plausible, though. I have personally seen a Zorro I expansion box.
It was stolen from the
Ohio State University Physics Demonstration Department...
Wasn't the first made by Byte-by-Byte, quite early on?
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