Re: PC Transporter Help?

[jkeim@unlinfo.unl.edu (james keim)]

Mitchell Spector (spec@vax2.concordia.ca) wrote:

:     Other parts of the Apple IIgs kit included three additional cables.
: Two were male IDC cables (one running between the ColorSwitch and PCT)
: and one running from the PCT to the back of the IIgs with an DB19 plug,
: so you could connect Apple 3.5 or TransDrive 5.25 drives. The last
: cable was a DB15 connector coming off the ColorSwitch, that would plug
: into the built-in RGB port on the IIgs. I assume you have those.

Yes, figured out the ColorSwitch last night.  For some reason I didn't
realize I'd need to plug the Colorswitch into the GS RGB port (duh!). 
The colorswitch seems add a slight blurriness to GS text (or it could 
be my allergies).

:     You also need a second Apple 3.5 or TransDrive 5.25 to boot floppy
: disks from the PCT, unless you have set up virtual MS-DOS hardrive 
: partitions on a ProDOS hardrive or other mass volume.

I have an old external 720k PC drive connected.  Will that work?

:     There should be a notch on the socket, match it up with the notch
: on the 8087 chip. I have one installed in my PCT (which lives in my
: ROM 01) but I find it pretty useless.

Okay, thought that would be how it worked.  I'm not sure whether I'll 
use it or not but I want to see if the chip I have works.

:     Incidentally, in case your wondering, the PC-Transporter emulates
: (through hardware obviously) a slightly accelerated IBM XT with CGA
: graphics and 640K. The NEC V30 runs at 7.16 MHz and is basically the
: equivalent of an 8086 with a couple of 186 instructions. I think you
: can run MS-DOS 6.22, Windows 3.0 (barely) and several old programs,
: but these days it's usefulness is pretty limited.

Yes, this is pretty much an exercise.  But I know my wife would like 
to be able to use Wordperfect 5.1 if it is at all useable.

: Mitchell Spector
: spec@vax2.concordia.ca

Thanks, Mitchell

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