Entry 9th December 2019: Post 02: Amiga 2000 - GVP I/O Extender Rev 7.
Amiga 2000 - GVP I/O Extender Rev 7.
The second of the cards is an I/O Extender by Great Valley Products
or simply GVP. This is a Zorro II card that gives the Amiga two
additional serial ports (D89) at up to 614400 baud. One further
parallel port (DB23). A midi port option ( not included on this
revision card ) and one expansion port. The J4 ROM socket was also
not included on this revision of card. Evidently you can still get
the midi interface to work if a 10 pin header is added where shown.
Interestingly the parallel port can be set to Amiga or IBM type.
Unfortunately the card is not compatible with Parnet.
Given the software on the A2000 I am sure that this computer was
being used as a PC Emulator for the most part. Why ? I have no idea.
Amiga 2000 - GVP I/O Extender Rev 7.
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