Re: Lucky IIgs find at Computer Fair

["Mark Cummings" <figjams@primus.com.au>]

>David Wilson wrote:
>
>> I was not expecting to find anything Apple // related at the PC computer
>> fair I visited today until I saw a familiar grey box under a table. It
was
>> a IIgs CPU with a Woz signature on the lid (I have not seen one of those
>> before). I opened it up and to my delight I found two more cards I did
not
>> already have: a Sandwich II (HS-SCSI card) and a PC Transporter (with AE
>> Color Switch). It also has an Apple memory expansion card (1MB I guess)
>> as well. All this cost me A$10 (US$5). A$6 more and I had a mouse,
keyboard
>> & ADB cable to go with it. It looks like it has been upgraded to ROM01
and
>> new VGC chip (the serial number is low enough that both would need to
have
>> been required) as the ROM ends in -B and the CGC in -C.

>> P.S. Is it common for the PC Transporter not to have ZIP RAM but instead
>> a daughter board with DIP RAM chips on it as that is what mine has.
>
>I have no idea which is more common but I have 2 PC Transporters, the
earlier
>one has ZIP RAM and the later one has the daughter card.

Nice grab David. My PCT is REV E and has qty 6 of MCM514256AP-10 regular
DRAMs on the main board. I don't suppose you got a manual for the PCT did
you ?

I have never heard of the Sandwich II.

Mark
Townsville