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

[Matt White <mwhite@cmu.edu>]

The slot is for a 8087 math coprocessor.  Remember math coprocessors?  And
yes, it will work just fine with that slot empty.


-Matt


--On Tuesday, January 12, 1999, 8:38 AM +0000 stephen e buggie
<buggie@ben09.unm.edu> wrote:

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> 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:
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> :           WHAT ORDINARY NON-IBM USES FOR PC-TRANSPORTER?
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> : Someone got me a dead IIgs CPU at a yard sale.  Inside it was a RAM card
> : and .... PC Transporter!
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> : 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???
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> : 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???
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> : Any other ordinary uses for it?
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> : 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???
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