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The Serial Port A5000 Internal Floptical SCSI Interface

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The Serial Port A5000 Internal Floptical SCSI Interface (top)

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The Serial Port A5000 Internal Floptical SCSI Interface (bottom)

The Serial Port A5000 Internal Floptical SCSI interface is designed to fit the A5000 Econet socket, it is designed specifically for the floptical drive. The transfer rate is 100Kps typically with an 80ms seek time. FLOPFS was supplied with the floptical drive.

The interface uses an NEC 53C80 SCSI controller.