Re: Lucky IIgs find at Computer Fair

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

"Mark Cummings" <figjams@primus.com.au> wrote in message
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> >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.
>


A Sandwich II is the chip on an Apple HS SCSI.

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