Re: Identification of Cards

[waynes@intergate.ca]

William Strutts wrote
>I got a used IIgs today because it had serveral interesting
>looking cards in it.
>
>First, I have a card with a 1/4" plug on it.  It mounts in the
>25-pin sized hole on the back of the IIgs.  I has a chip,
>a few resisters and it is about three inches square.  It has
>a cable which plugs into the Fan plug on the motherboard
>and it has a cable which plugs into J25 on the motherboard.
>I suspect that this is some kind of sound modification.  Is
>it the legendary stereo card mod?  I have tried to run the
>Sierra games on it but the sound only comes from the
>built in speaker.  Does it need special software to use the
>sound card?  If so, what utilizes it?

Sounds like the sound card that came with HyperStudio. 
The microphone plugged into the 1/4" plug. Can't really
recall much more as it's been a lot of years since I last 
used it.

>Then I have a card that has a cable on it which mounts on
>the back panel with a 25-pin connector.  It is labelled
>"Apple Computer 820-0153-A, 1990".  Ther is a id
>on the ROM which says "341-0803" and there is a chip
>called the "Sandwich II".  I suspect this is a Apple High
>Speed SCSI card.  How does this card work?  Is there
>a utility disk that is required to operate it?  How to you
>check to see if it is working?  When plugged in, I get
>a "SCSI drive not found" message.

That's a Hi-Speed SCSI card. Can't do much with it til you attach a 
SCSI hard drive and possibly a terminator. 
Basically the card operates itself but you do need software to partition 
and format the hard drive. 

For partitioning and formatting, most people seem to prefer either the 
Chinook SCSI Utilities or the Advanced Dick utilities that came with 
System 6.
Generally people install the SCSI card in slot 7 so they can boot off it. 
After it's formatted and partitined most people install System 5.0.4 or 
6.0.1 in a IIgs, though Prosel 16 has a few fans.
In a IIe I'd go for Prosel 8.
Getting a hard drive is like getting a whole new computer. It won't be long
before you start avoiding applications you can't run off a hard drve.

	Wayne


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