Re: Specs and Info on IIe LC card

[Randy Shackelford <shack@onyx.southwind.net>]

Greg Buchner <nobody@wavetech.net> wrote:

:>However, one must be running a version of the MacOS which allows one to
:>switch off 32 bit addressing (via a control panel). I'm not sure which
:>version of the MacOS stopped allowing this. I know that MacOS 8.0 and 8.1
:>(and beyond) no longer allow this, but MacOS 7.1 (which came bundled with
:>the above four machines) allowed it...not sure about later versions in the
:>7.x system software releases.....

: MacOS 7.6 and later have all required the 32-bit option to run.

: Up to 7.5.5 will run at 24-bits, but not on all machines...but it should
: on the machines that are in question.

Yep, later 68Ks don't allow turning off 32 bit addressing with any OS version.
The Quadra AVs and 500 series Powerbooks fall into this category. The Q605
may as well, since I've heard that the IIe card doesn't work in it. Actually
it might not work in any '040s.

: I actually have a //e card for the LC series, but no appropriate machine
: to put it in.

Mine lives in a Color Classic with an LC520 logic board swapped in. That
makes the box about twice as fast as a normal CC, so the IIe card runs
software fast enough to be quite usable.
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