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From: milamber@caen.engin.umich.edu (Daryl Cantrell)
Subject: Re: A silly question...
Message-ID: <1991Apr20.045727.18501@engin.umich.edu>
Keywords: IBM-PC, Bridgeboard, silly
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Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
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Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1991 04:57:27 GMT

In article <3216@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU> cdavis@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Charles Davis) writes:
>Now this might be a dumb question, but here goes...
>
>Has anyone considered using those IBM-PC slots in the A2000 (and A3000)
>_WITHOUT_ a bridgeboard?  What I mean is getting a cheap Clone-on-a-board
>and putting it inside the Amiga (much like a cancer tumor?  :^)
>
>Would this work?  A system like this could be put together as follows:
[...]

  The most immediate problem that comes to mind is a lack of keyboard.
More generally, I don't think that the 286 "accelorator" cards you can
buy for ISA are a "whole" computer, I imagine they rely on support
electronics on the motherboard...

>Maybe this is silly (does the A2000 supply power to these slots without
>the Bridgeboard present?), but I was just wondering....
[...]

  I'm not sure.  It's not even on the schematics that came with my 3000
(not that I'm very good reading that "hardware" stuff...), so it might
not be hooked up to the outside world at all...


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