SYSTEM EXPANDABILITY AND ADAPTABILITY New peripheral devices may be easily added to all Amiga models. These devices are automatically recognized and used by system software through a well defined, well documented linking procedure called AUTOCONFIG. On the A500 and A1000 models, peripheral devices can be added to the Amiga's 86 pin expansion connector, including additional external RAM. Extra disk units may be added from a connector at the rear of the unit. The A2000 model provides the user with the same features as the A500 or A1000, but with the added convenience of simple and extensive expandability.
The 86 pin, external connector of the A1000 and A500 is not externally accessible on the A2000. Instead, the A2000 contains 7 internal slots that allow many types of expansion boards to be quickly and easily added inside the machine. These expansion boards may contain coprocessors, RAM expansion, hard disk controllers, video or I/O ports. There is also room to mount both floppy and hard disks internally. The A2000 also supports the special Bridgeboard coprocessor card. This provides a complete IBM PC on a card and allows the Amiga to run MS-DOS compatible software, while simultaneously running native Amiga software. - 6 Introduction -