PIC interesting a1200 m/b power hack: takes power from normal HDD power cable plug!

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Originally Posted by mihcael

A1200 was the best designed i think, and it has everything!!

Wow. That's quite an exclamation.. I think the total opposite.

As a base machine, the design is sound.

But when you start plugging bus adapters to the expansion slot and inverted PLCC sockets to the custom chips, I wouldn't call that good design any more.. Most A1200 expansions are hacks, the machine was never meant to go as far as the 3rd party designers have gone with it.

This is just the result of it being the most common Amiga in the field, there's a market to expand them by any means possible.

I don't mean to slag the A1200 and it's users even though all the above sounds like that. My point is that we should see the fully expanded A1200 as what it is, a nice hack that happens to work for many people, not as a great example of electronics design.