Re: Can a GS with dead slots run a Zip or TWGS?

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

Supertimer (supertimer@aol.com) wrote:

: You guys don't get it.  The GS motherboard in question is not the
: one I use.  It is just sitting there.  Since I don't need to use it, why
: would I want to get it replaced?  I'm not going to throw out the board.
: When and if I come across a CT drive cheap, I'll see what can be
: done with it.  It is the challenge of it.  I am in no hurry.

I think we "get it" and the concensus is that it's a dumb idea. You face 
awfully long odds of ever finding a floppy port hard disk, even less likely
finding one cheap. Personally if I wanted to sell mine I wouldn't sell it
to someone whom I knew would misuse it in such a way.

When I found a signature edition IIgs box with ROM 0 and the old style VGC
chip still in place, the logic board had a problem where unless a joystick
was plugged into the port, it thought the command key was always pressed.
So I took the board that was in my one owner signature edition box which
had been upgraded before being replaced with a ROM 3, plucked the chips,
and swapped 'em. I have boxes full of spare logic boards and having stuff
not working right bugs me. Even though the ROM 0 box is an attic dweller
and only gets pulled out and used once in a great while.
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