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

["Jason Whorton" <jason@microxl.com>]

Hello, sir.  Congratulations on your find.  I am looking at one in the 9-87
issue of A+ magazine, right now.  The empty 40-pin socket is for an 8087
math co-processor chip.  It is an option and is not required.  The PCT could
have up to 768K of RAM, and that could be re-configured as a RAMdisk, which
according to the A+ article, would let AppleWorks 2.0 show 750K of work
space.  Here's another highlight:  "The older Apple UniDisk 3.5 drives can't
be connected to PC Transporter."  Also, "Thus, PC Transporter favors the
Apple pin configuration and has a DB-19 (19-pin) connector for disk drives -
and so does the disk-drive set from Applied Engineering."
    As best I remember, you are using an Apple II to read e-mail.  I don't
know if you could view a .jpg of a scan of the article, but if you can, I
can scan and e-mail the article to you.  If that is not possible, I can scan
it, turn it into a text file and e-mail it to you.
    If you ever decide to sell it, I am interested whether it is dead or
alive.

Thank you,
Jason Whorton
www.microxl.com/oldcomputers/main.html
www.microxl.com/oldcomputers/Model60.html

stephen e buggie wrote in message <77evs3$shi$3@lynx.unm.edu>...
>
>          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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>
>NOTE: With my latest hardware "smuggled" into the house, Mrs. Buggie is
>likely to throw another "hardware tantrum."  Look for my ads coming soon
>to reduce the Apple inventory!
>
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