Re: Confused about IIGS slots and AppleTalk

["william strutts" <wrstrutts1@nospam.home.com>]

"Matthew Carpenter" <msc1983@mac.com> wrote in message
news:msc1983-1510012005330001@192.168.1.101...
> Hello,
>
>    I have an ROM 01 IIGS.  I am currently waiting for an Apple high Speed
> SCSI card to arive.  While I have been waiting I have been looking up
> information about slot configurations but what I have been finding has me
> a little confused.
>
>    what I want to do is be able to have my ImageWriter II connected
> directly to the printer port(slot 2).  I want to be able to use both 3.5
> and 5.25 drives(slots 5 and 6).  The mouse(slot 4)....slot 3 is stuck with
> the 80collumn display... Apple talk on (slot 7...and 1???)
>
>    What I'm confused about is when I have slot 1 set for "your card" and
> slot 7 set for AppleTalk will I be able to put my SCSI card in slot 1?  Or
> will I have to give something up in order to use the SCSI card?
>
> Thanks.

Does your Imagewriter II have the Appletalk option? You could
get Appletalk, Localtalk or Phonenet connectors for the printer
and the computer and put it on a network. That would then allow
you to use slot 2 for the SCSI card.  You could also get a ROM 3
machine and put the SCSI card in slot 7.  Or of course give up
either 5.25 or 3.5 drives.  Another complication is that RAM5
ram disk will use slot 2 so you would have to give that up too.

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