Re: GS international?

[Charles Stephens <devnull@dobbs.eng.sun.com>]

>>>>> "RF" == Robert Flossmann <Robert.Flossmann@dillingen.baynet.de> writes:

 RF> it seems GS boxes are a bit hard to come by in Germany - or at
 RF> least they're terribly expensive if you happen to find one. So
 RF> the idea of the "Stealth GS" quite appealed to me.

 RF> Now the question: Were there any regional differences in the GS
 RF> mainboards (say, like in the IIe ones)? Or if I got a US GS box,
 RF> does it have a 220/110V power supply and can deal with German
 RF> power frequencies and TV standards?

I bought a German IIgs a while back and plugged it in for fun to a
step up transformer and it worked.  So, at minimum you can do the same
in reverse (get a step down transformer and plug it in).  What ever
you do, do _not_ use a plug adaptor.  That will blow up the poor US
IIgs to bits (and perhaps cause a fire).

The motherboards should be the same except for video signal
generation.  I suspect, but was not able to test, that the composite
video out is PAL in Europe while NTSC in the US.  However, the RGB
port is autodetecting, so I was able to get 60 and 50 Hz out of there.

The power supply is probably 110-220v, but the monitors will not be.
However, if you luck out and get a Euro GS RGB monitor, then you won't
need a transformer.

I had no use for the German IIgs, so I sold it, so can not say much
more about it.  I wanted all of the software and book goodies it came
with.

Good luck.

cfs
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