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Article #209Re: IDE HDD and Amiga 500
From: Stephan Neise
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 00:00
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 00:00
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On Fri, 10 Mar 2000 00:13:27 GMT, "Martin Camp" <martin@hatman.com.au> wrote: >I want to connect an old PC IDE HDD to my old Amiga 500 > >I'm told it can be done??? >Can any one help? > >martin@hatman.com.au > DCE's Viper520 is an internal expansion that will give you a 33MHz 68ec020 CPU, 8 megs RAM, socket for a 33MHz 68882 Coprocessor, 3.0 ROMs, 1 44pin IDE interface (including some space to mount a 2.5" hd) and 2 40 pin IDE interfaces. I you want to connect external devices, you would still need to solve power and housing problems. Unfortunately, they are relatively new and won't sell cheap. Converting German Marks to USD, I'd say about $130 for a new one.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103f72,bc6646997c81be60 X-Google-Attributes: gid103f72,public X-Google-Thread: fee24,bc6646997c81be60 X-Google-Attributes: gidfee24,public X-Google-Thread: f7e4d,bc6646997c81be60 X-Google-Attributes: gidf7e4d,public From: tron1@globalserve.net (Stephan Neise) Subject: Re: IDE HDD and Amiga 500 Date: 2000/03/10 Message-ID: <38c92f84.6510964@nntp.uunet.ca> X-Deja-AN: 595758866 References: <38c83de1$1@news.iprimus.com.au> X-Trace: nnrp1.uunet.ca 952709052 207.176.137.66 (Fri, 10 Mar 2000 12:24:12 EST) Organization: UUNET Canada News Reader Service NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 12:24:12 EST Newsgroups: amiga.hardware,aus.computers.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.hardware