CBS (jsmith66@hotmail.com) wrote:
: Most people tell me it is a TEST connector, used at the factory to test
: the boards.
: I find this *highly* unlikely. Companies don't put test *connectors* on
: electronics. The connectors are too expensive.
: EVERY test "connector" on every Apple II board that I've ever seen was a
: line of a few solder spots on the board. Instead of PLUGGING into the
: board, a machine or human could *PRESS* a test device to the "connector"
: and test the board.
: Maybe if:: Tony Diaz,
: or one of his friends are reading this, they could ask him about it and
: share the answer with us.
: I *seem* to remember there was a cable to connect the TWGS directly to a
: memory card?? (I thought I read something about the connector in a
: NIBBLE). Maybe it was a processor addon I read about. I cannot
: remember, and I havent been able to find the Nibble Article since then
: (I first read it way before I got my GS)
: Hmmm. I should have followed the traces on the board to the Connector
: the other day, when I drew my %100 accurate scale drawing of my TWGS.
: Here is the best idea I've seen so far (I just found it searching
: DejaNews)
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: ab616@chebucto.ns.ca (Tony Cianfaglione) wrote:
: > What is the pin connector at the top of the TransWarp GS card next
: to
: >the light. It looks like a 34 pin connector for a HD or something.
: It's a passthrough for the microprocessor, I think. It was intended
: so that Applied Engineering (or someone else, perhaps) could construct
: addon modules of some sort for the TWGS. Nobody ever used it for
: anything.
...Or possibly so that the TWGS could be installed in a different slot and
connected to the motherboard with a longer cable? I always assumed that's
what it was for, as the CPU connector at the bottom of the card may
interfere with the contents of other cards. Of course, my CPU cable is
short enough that I couldn't try that little trick...
--Dave Althoff, ][.
(who needs to get on the stick and order a new 65C816 to make his TWGS
work again...)
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