Re: GS upgrade for IIe?

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

Dave,

Yes it was an upgrade, you took the machine into Apple for the upgrade. I
have a picture of one I could e-mail. Someone sold one on e-bay some time
back, so I kept the picture. It's about a 31K jpg.
The modification involved swapping or altering the baseplate of the case as
well. This would be the only messy part if you were to hack a standard IIe
case.
Not all GS motherboards can be used, only the ones with the power and the
keyboard connector. I have 2x ROM-1's and only one has the connectors. The
ROM-3's don't have the connectors either, nor could you add them. It would
be possible to add the connectors to the ROM-1's that don't have them, but
that would require exceptional soldering skills.

You do lose some feature(s) of a regular GS. I only know of this one...
The GS keyboard is on the ADB bus along with the mouse. This is where some
software compatability comes in. Adding a GS keyboard and mouse would get
around that, but then you might as well put it back in a GS case.
I think the other issue was with early IIe power supplies, which are rated
lower than the standard GS one.

Mark