Date   : Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:50:52 +0100
From   : mfirth@... (Michael Firth)
Subject: Hardware Woes

Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-08-16 at 14:38 +0100, Rob wrote:
>   
> <snip>
>> Plan E, Can I put a hard disc and an ethernet card in an A3000 ?
>> What would I need?
>>     
>
> Not easily.  The A3000 only supports one full-size podule as standard,
> so either the hard disk or the network card would need to go in the
> internal minipodule slot.  Both of those were certainly produced as
> minipodules but they tend to be rather rarer than the full-size
> versions.
>
>   
For the Ethernet side, CJE-Micros have new mini-podules available for ?25:

http://www.cjemicros.co.uk/micros/individual/newprodpages/prodinfo.php?prodcode=ACO-3K10B2NT

I got one for my A3020, and it works a treat (and combined with an 
Econet module, it makes probably the smallest dual Econet / Ethernet 
Acorn machine)

<snip>

Regards

Michael