Re: Has GS ever been ported to another platfrom

["Roger Johnstone" <rojaws@es.co.nz>]

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In article <38873D8B.FA709999@lexis-nexis.com>, John Townsend
<utownje@lexis-nexis.com> wrote:


>Supertimer wrote:
>
>> ADB was first released on the IIGS and adopted by all later
>> Macs, for example.  The story of ADB is quite interesting.
>> ADB was designed by the Mac division, but Jobs was
>> determined not to alter the original Mac design which he
>> thought was the best.  That's why there was incremental
>> changes between the original Mac and the Mac Plus.  The
>> ADB people at the Mac division got so fed up with Jobs
>> not letting ADB onto the Mac, they went over to the Apple
>> II division, then working on the IIGS.  Together, they put
>> ADB on the Apple IIGS.  When Jobs heard of this, his
>> head blew off.  Soon after, John Sculley fired Jobs.
>
>Interesting.  Makes you wonder if this had anything to do with the elimination of
>ADB (replaced by USB) on the iMacs and newer G3/G4's, now that Jobs is back.
>
>--
>John E. Townsend
>Sr. Software Engineer          "Machines should work;
>LEXIS-NEXIS                     people should think."
>Dayton, OH, USA                        -- IBM Pollyanna Principle
>utownje@lexis-nexis.com
>

My original Bondi Blue iMac has solder connections on the motherboard for
both ADB and Apple floppy drive. All that's needed for the floppy is to
solder on the 20 pin header (same as the Apple II has used since 1978!) and
plug in a drive. The ADB just needs the miniDIN connector and a couple of
passive components. They work with no other modification i.e. there is even
support in ROM for them. Or there was, it may have been removed in ROM
updates.


Roger Johnstone
Invercargill
New Zealand
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