Re: PC Transporter's Specification Is Needed

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

Bryan Parkoff <BParkoff@satx.rr.com> wrote:

> PC Transporter's Specification Is Needed
> 
>     I got it frm e-Bay couple months ago.  It does not have any information
> that has deep details for the design and specification of this PC
> Transporter.  I need to know the 6 din female and video cable so I can be
> able to build a new switch if it is necessary.  Does 6 pin female means to
> be keyboard?

There is a five or six pin molex connector on the PC Transporter, which
can be used to connect a genuine PC keyboard, via an adaptor which goes
to a DIN-5 female plug.  You don't absolutely need this - the PC
Transporter is able to use the Apple II keyboard, with special key
combinations to emulate missing keys.  (It works best on an Apple IIgs
with an extended keyboard, since that provides all the keys required.)

> Will it work both XT and AT keyboard?

XT only, I expect.  The PCT emulates an XT.

> RGB video connector (15 pin) and PC Transporter's video connector (19 pin)
> are not compatible.

The 19 pin connector on the PC Transporter is for floppy disk drives,
not a monitor.

The PC Transporter has three video connectors:

- a four pin molex port which goes to the matching four pin port on an
Apple IIe, allowing the PCT to override the video output of the Apple II
(using the composite monitor connected to the IIe's video port).

- A ten pin female connector which is designed to work with the
"ColorSwitch" card in an Apple IIgs.  This card has a loopback cable
which plugs into the IIgs 15-pin RGB output, and the ColorSwitch
provides a replacement 15-pin RGB connector.  The IIgs monitor then
plugs into the ColorSwitch card.  The card allows the PCT to switch the
video source between the IIgs and the PCT.

- Another connector (the details of which I forget) which allow you to
connect a CGA (digital RGB) monitor directly to the PCT.  This output
only displays video generated by the PCT.