Amiga 500 Pacific Peripherals SubSystem - EXTREMELY RARE
Item History & Price
| Reference Number: Avaluer:31123812 | Model: SubSystem 500 |
| Vintage: Yes | Country/Region of Manufacture: United States |
| Brand: Pacific Peripherals | Type: Expansion |
Folks, this took me a long time to actually identify. It took a friend of mine to actually do that detective work. I know a lot about Amigas, but this one was difficult to track down.
It's called the SubSystem 500 made by Pacific Peripherals in 1987/88 in Fremont, CA (SF Bay Area).
This amazing and fascinating device sits directly below an Amiga 500 so as not to consume any additional precious desk real estate. On one side of it is a connector that plugs into your Ami...ga's side-expansion port. That connection can then be covered up with a solid metal plate. Or, if you still use an external hard drive on your side port, like the A590 or GVP HD8+ Series II, there is a way to use all of it together and create a gigantic A500 machine! My guess is you'd need to put some extra vertical padding under an external drive, though, but I never checked that. Maybe not.
The SubSystem 500 chassis case is metal, and inside the metal case is a large circuit board that allows you to use TWO Zorro II cards with your Amiga 500 that were originally designed for an Amiga 2000!
Totally crazy.
Also, this is the upgraded version that came with an additional 3.5" floppy drive. I think some folks would ditch the side expansion HDD with this thing back in the day and put a SCSI card / HDD inside the chassis to actually reclaim desk space. It would be amazing if that actually works... Maybe some other A2K expansion cards (extra serial ports, etc.).
Anyway, to power all of this stuff the SubSystem came with a very strange and rather large and heavy power supply (see pics, included). If I were to keep this thing, I would contact Ray Carlsen (Google him if you don't know about him and his excellent Commodore PSUs) to see if he could recreate it in a more modern, safe PSU for this device. But it does use a very unusual almost C64 looking round Din-connector for the PSU into the Subsystem. And the PSU weighs a ton.
Anyway, ask me anything and I'll do my best to answer. Due to the size and total weight of this thing (13.5 pounds) the shipping during these lovely times is pretty hefty. Nothing I can really do about that. If you're in the Seattle area I'd be happy for you to do a local pickup. Otherwise, shipping must go through the normal channels here in the USA.
Folks - trying to ship this outside the continental lower 48 states would be astronomical, so I don't think we should even consider that.
Amiga 500 not included.
AMA
It's called the SubSystem 500 made by Pacific Peripherals in 1987/88 in Fremont, CA (SF Bay Area).
This amazing and fascinating device sits directly below an Amiga 500 so as not to consume any additional precious desk real estate. On one side of it is a connector that plugs into your Ami...ga's side-expansion port. That connection can then be covered up with a solid metal plate. Or, if you still use an external hard drive on your side port, like the A590 or GVP HD8+ Series II, there is a way to use all of it together and create a gigantic A500 machine! My guess is you'd need to put some extra vertical padding under an external drive, though, but I never checked that. Maybe not.
The SubSystem 500 chassis case is metal, and inside the metal case is a large circuit board that allows you to use TWO Zorro II cards with your Amiga 500 that were originally designed for an Amiga 2000!
Totally crazy.
Also, this is the upgraded version that came with an additional 3.5" floppy drive. I think some folks would ditch the side expansion HDD with this thing back in the day and put a SCSI card / HDD inside the chassis to actually reclaim desk space. It would be amazing if that actually works... Maybe some other A2K expansion cards (extra serial ports, etc.).
Anyway, to power all of this stuff the SubSystem came with a very strange and rather large and heavy power supply (see pics, included). If I were to keep this thing, I would contact Ray Carlsen (Google him if you don't know about him and his excellent Commodore PSUs) to see if he could recreate it in a more modern, safe PSU for this device. But it does use a very unusual almost C64 looking round Din-connector for the PSU into the Subsystem. And the PSU weighs a ton.
Anyway, ask me anything and I'll do my best to answer. Due to the size and total weight of this thing (13.5 pounds) the shipping during these lovely times is pretty hefty. Nothing I can really do about that. If you're in the Seattle area I'd be happy for you to do a local pickup. Otherwise, shipping must go through the normal channels here in the USA.
Folks - trying to ship this outside the continental lower 48 states would be astronomical, so I don't think we should even consider that.
Amiga 500 not included.
AMA
