Tue 4 Sep 2007
MicroniK was a German hardware company (I think) who made some cool stuff for the Amiga (and in other markets too IIRC). Most probably best well known for their line of towers, especially the all plastic snap-on A1200 tower that looked so cool but felt so flimsy.
A major piece of any tower kit for the wedge type Amiga’s was the Zorro bussboard transforming your small box Amiga into a Big-Box Amiga (Amiga models that had Zorro slots where called that).
Anyway this piece of hardware is a MicroniK 6860 Zorro 2 bussboard that has five Zorro 2 slots, two ISA slots, two PCI slots and one Video slot (I also have the Video slot enabler in my collection but will blog about that sometimes later). The ISA and PCI slots are not connected to the Amiga side, they are just simple powered passive slots meant to be used with a PC single slot computer.
Two interesting notes about this bussboard:
1) MicroniK used a custom power connector so the pinout is different than typical AT (not a problem from the beginning since they shipped their towers with their own PSU).
2) Zorro 2 is a bit slow! (at least by today’s standards IMHO, but hey it is vintage!).