Re: Transwarp card for //e

[John L <jdl@biogate.com>]

On Wed, 21 Feb 2001 21:38:47 -0600, Roy and/or Janet Miller
<millers@inetnebr.com> wrote:

>> Slot#1: Parallel Printer card
>> Slot#2: Super Serial card II
>> Slot#3: Transwarp //e
>> Slot#4: Apple // Mouse card
>> Slot#5: Unidisk 3.5" controller card
>> Slot#6: Apple 5.25" controller card
>> Slot#7: Z-80 CP/M card
>
>That's a lot of power being used there. According to AE's catalog (where they
>are selling their beefed up power supply) a //e uses 1 amp, the 5.25 and 3.5
>pull .9 amps, an accelerator pulls .5 amps, a CP/M card pulls .3 - 1 amps,
>and a printer card pulls .3 - .6 amps, while the standard ][ power supply
>only gives you 2.5 amps to play with.

I took out the Super Serial card + Z-80 CP/M card and reconfigured my
system as follows:

Slot#1: AST Sprintdisk 1MB RAM Card
Slot#2: Empty
Slot#3: Transwarp //e
Slot#4: Apple // Mouse Card
Slot#5: Unidisk 3.5" controller card
Slot#6: Apple 5.25" controller card
Slot#7: Empty

In addition, I swapped the power supply over from my unenhanced //e.

When I power the Platinum //e up I get a screen of garbage which
settles down to display a full scren of "@" characters.  Pressing
CTRL-RESET does nothing.

Is it possible that the DIP switch settings are wrong ?.  I haven't
really found any detailed documentation on DIP switch settings for the
TW other than what I found in the FAQ's (which I found limited).




John