Re: Missing cable(s) for PC Transporter?

[gospodin@clubi.ie (Vincent Quinn)]

In article <931397883.707.66@news.remarQ.com>,
"Jason Whorton" <jason@microxl.com> wrote:

>Hello.  I received a PC Transporter card in a trade and am wanting to
>install it in my Apple IIe (enhanced).  I know I don't have the disks, but I
>think I am missing a necessary cable, as well.  I have one cable coming off
>of it that has a DB-19 connector and is apparently for Apple disk drives.  I
>have another cable coming off it that goes to a ColorSwitch card that has a
>cable with a DB-15 connector on it.  I am missing the cable for PC drives,
>right?

No. You _have_ the cable that allows the [platinum] Apple 3.5 drive to be
used as a 720K PC drive. You _can_ attach real PC 720K and 360K drives to
this port, or pull the cable and attach them directly to the 20-pin header
on the card, but it isn't a straightforward thing to do - you need to build
an interface card from components and attach the drives to this card in
parallel, using their jumpers to tell the PCT which is drive one and which
is drive two. This contraption wasn't available from AE: if you want to
attach PC drives, you will have to build it.

>What else am I missing?

IIe keyboard piggyback cable, interface cable to attach a real XT/AT PC
keyboard (the better option if you are using a IIe - will give you all of
the function keys), cable that allows PCT video to be output through a IIe
composite monitor, CGA video cable and - I think - an audio cable for the
IIe (I seem to remember the PCT attaches to the audio connector on the IIe
motherboard and the IIe speaker has then to be attached to PCT so that the
audio is passed through - I could be confusing this with something else
[such as a Mac PC card] though).

>I know there are a couple more connectors
>that are empty, though I know one of them is for an 8087.

??? I think (not gonna look just now) the only empty socket is the 8087
one. If it's headers, they're for the cables I've referred to above. What
are the locations?

>Also, since I am
>missing the disks, can someone point me to where I might could download a
>copy of whatever disks came with it?  I found one that I downloaded a while
>back that is pctbootvol.shk.  I don't have the Un-Shrinkit or whatever I
>need anyway, so any advice on all this would be greatly appreciated.

That's the one you need. You're gonna have to un-shrink it, or find someone
that will unshrink it for you. Then you need a 3.5 drive attached to your
IIe to use it... And of course a second 3.5 drive attached to PCT plus a
3.5" MS-DOS boot disk to get PCT up'n'running.

Greetings [once again] to everyone from Ireland

Vincent Quinn