[comp.sys.amiga.hardware] Amiga 1000 periferals on Amiga 500

cullip@sargent.cs.unc.edu (Timothy Cullip) (03/07/91)

I know I've seen mention in the past of people using A500 periferals
(that plug into the side expansion) on A1000's.  Has anybody tried it
the other way?  I have an old A1000 that has a Microbotics Starboard
expansion, I just got an A500 and would like to put the Starboard on
it.  Problem is the A500 side connector is so far resessed into the 
machine that the Starboard case runs into the A500 case before the
connectors meet.

Has anybody ever tried to do a work around for this?  
Does anyone make an 86 pin edge card connector extension?
Or maybe two connectors with a ribbon cable between them, that way
I could place the Starboard anywhere I want (rather than have it obnoxiously
in the way).


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   Tim Cullip
   cullip@cs.unc.edu