Zorro I vs Zorro II (was RE: Whats a reasonable collection?)

From: John Foust <jfoust_at_threedee.com>
Date: Fri Jun 29 14:17:51 2001

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
Received on Fri Jun 29 2001 - 14:17:51 BST