Re: This may be a duplicate post, but please read anyway

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

gen_hp_gooberman@my-deja.com wrote:

>I didn't realize accelarators were stock to the

Yup.  The 10Mhz Rocket Chip and the 8Mhz Zip Chip were
actual DIP CPU replacement chips.  You swapped them
with the CPU you currently had and jumped from one to 10
or 8 megahertz.  The best part is that unlike IIGS
accelerators, you do not lose a slot.

>era.  Will probably end up with the following:
>
>No slot clock
>Mouse card
>1.44 meg card
>Laser I/O card
>Super Serial Card
>1 meg card
>SCSI card
>CP/M card
>And that would take all of my slots.

Hmm...how about a Focus drive from http://www.allelec.com/
Alltech Electronics?  The drive is $79, comes with 500MB
and has a library of shareware and freeware.  That should
eliminate the 1.44MB plus SCSI card since a hard drive more
than makes up for lack of high density floppies.

I'd also replace the CP/M and 1MB cards with an Applied
Engineering PC Transporter.  This card is an IBM XT on a
card (turbo XT even) with 768k of memory.  In Apple mode,
it will serve as a 768k RAM card for your IIe.  In XT mode,
you can run CP/M with it...the XT has an NEC processor
with backward compatibility to the Z80, I think.

>I am more than happy with my color composite monitor, and would
>rather have a 1.44 card than a fancy monitor.  Will save that
>kind of high performance graphics for my IIgs.  Same with sound.
>Is there some sort of expansion chasis available?  I know they
>were made for some of the old one slot and no slot macs.

There was a box called "Switch a Slot" which had several
slots in a rotary switchbox.  A cable plugs into one slot
in the A2.  You selected your card with the rotary dial.