Editing Amiga 600 (section)

===Peripherals and expansion===
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The A600 features Amiga-specific connectors including two [[D-subminiature|DB9M]] ports for [[joystick]]s, [[mouse (computing)|mice]], and [[light pen]]s, a standard 25-pin [[RS-232]] [[serial port]] and a 25-pin [[Centronics]] [[parallel port]]. As a result, the A600 is compatible with many peripherals available for earlier Amiga models, such as [[MIDI]], [[sampling (signal processing)|sound samplers]] and video-capture devices.

Expansion capabilities new to the Amiga line were the [[PC Card|PCMCIA]] Type II slot and the internal 44-pin ATA interface both most commonly seen on [[laptop]] computers. Both interfaces are controlled by the '[[Amiga custom chips#Gayle|Gayle]]' custom chip. The A600 has internal housing for one 2.5" internal hard disk drive connecting to the ATA controller.<ref name="a600_schematics"/>

The A600 is the first of only two Amiga models to feature a PCMCIA Type II interface. This connector allows use of a number of compatible peripherals available for the laptop-computer market, although only 16-bit PCMCIA cards are hardware-compatible; newer 32-bit PC Card (CardBus) peripherals are incompatible. Mechanically, only Type I and Type II cards fit in the slot; thicker Type III cards will not fit (although they may connect if the A600 is removed from its original case). The port is also not fully compliant with the PCMCIA Type II standard as the A600 was developed before the standard was finalized. The PCMCIA implementation on the A600 is almost identical to the one featured on a later Amiga, the [[Amiga 1200|1200]]. A number of Amiga peripherals were released by third-party developers for this connector including SRAM cards, [[CD-ROM]] controllers, [[SCSI]] controllers, network cards, [[sampling (signal processing)|sound samplers]], and video-capture devices. Although PCMCIA was similar in spirit to Commodore's expansion architecture for its [[Commodore 64|earlier systems]], the intended capability for convenient external expansion through this connector was largely unrealized at the time of release because of the prohibitive expense of PCMCIA peripherals for a lower-budget personal computer.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Extreme Amiga 600 Upgrading Page - What the hell is an Amiga 600?|url= http://www.amiga600.de/whatisamiga600.htm}}</ref> Later, a number of compatible laptop-computer peripherals have been made to operate with the A600, including network cards (both wired and wireless), serial modems and [[CompactFlash]] adapters.