A custom "X-PCI" (bottom) to conventional PCI (top) riser card from a Pippin Expansion Unit by Katz Media.
A computer bus based on Peripheral Component Interconnect (also known as PCI) was used by Pippin consoles to attach proprietary expansion docks. This customized 120-pin connector was referred to as "X-PCI".[1][2]
A Pippin expansion dock can be attached to the bottom of a console to add peripherals contained within the dock, such as a floppy drive or ethernet port. The dock contains a small riser card to connect to the X-PCI bus.[3][4] The X-PCI connector uses the same 120-pin configuration as the Pippin ROMs.[5]
Gallery[]
A Pippin Atmark console connecting with a Deltis 230 MO Docking Turbo via X-PCI.
An X-PCI to SCSI adapter from a Deltis 230 MO Docking Turbo.
Back of an unreleased Pippin Atmark-EX with a conventional half-size PCI card slot.
References[]
- ↑ Useful Notes / Pippin, TV Tropes. Accessed 2017-04-20.
- ↑ Hacking the Pippin by Phil Beesley, Vintage Macintosh. 2007-10-22. Archived 2017-08-17
- ↑ Spec. (Japanese), Pipp!n@Archive. Archived 2007-02-05.
- ↑ Pippin @World gets Ethernet, CNET News. 1997-05-21. Archived 2004-11-25.
- ↑ FDユニット自作 その１ (Japanese) by Kankoba, MAISON PiPPiN, GeoCities. Archived 2002-03-05.
External links[]
- Pippin X-PCI and FDD connector wiring (Japanese) at MAISON PiPPiN (archived 2002-11-15)
- Pippin XPCI-PCI conversion table (Japanese) at the Pipp!n@Archive (archived 2007-02-03)
- PCI at the Apple Wiki
- Conventional PCI at Wikipedia