Re: PC TransPorter: What are its non-IBM uses?

[buggie@ben09.unm.edu (stephen e buggie)]

This PC TransPorter has an empty 40-pin socket on it, located neat the
narrow end of the board.   What is that 40-pin socket for?  Will PCT work
with that slot empty?


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stephen e buggie (buggie@ben09.unm.edu) wrote:

:           WHAT ORDINARY NON-IBM USES FOR PC-TRANSPORTER?
:           ==============================================

: Someone got me a dead IIgs CPU at a yard sale.  Inside it was a RAM card
: and .... PC Transporter!

: I have absolutely no interest in using PC TransPorter to run old IBM
: software.   BUT, I heard somewhere, long ago, that this card has other
: uses, such as a RAM card 640K.  Is this true???

: Can it also be used as a db-19 disk drive controller?  Can it run one or
: two platinum 3.5 800K drives on a IIe???

: Any other ordinary uses for it?

: The CPU appears to be dead --- not even a self-test.  What is the simplest
: test I can do to PC-TransPorter to check whether it works???

: Thanks,		Steve Buggie

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