Re: Q: IIe, ROM 01 and 03 Power Supp. Compatibility?

[shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <856802639.565@dejanews.com>,  <mselliot@wsuhub.uc.twsu.edu> wrote:

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>> You can use a //e power supply on some ROM 0/01 boards. There's a place on
>> the board for the connector, but not all of 'em have it. You could scavenge
>> the connector off a ][ plus or //e board and put it on if you're handy with
>> a soldering iron. ROM 3s have no connector for the //e type supply and don't
>> have a place to put one.
>>
>
>Thanks- I thought so. I see the ROM 01 also has the KB and Numeric plugs
>(well, minus the actual "plug") I assume this was a leftover from those
>motherboard replacement kits? or just didn't get changed until the ROM
>03. I wonder if the little "pins" that hold the motherboard in are the
>same too? I'm attempting to basically do the unthinkable and make a IIe
>into a IIGS-- simply to have a GS around without having to get a KB, ADB
>mouse, PS, case, etc, etc. :) -Michael mselliot@wsuhub.uc.twsu.edu

Like I was telling Steve Buggie once, I'd try awfully hard to find the
proper parts to make a //e upgrade style IIgs. You're in for some tedious 
hacksaw work to make holes in the //e bottom for the ports, and the standoff
and screw holes won't line up. I built a //e upgrade from parts a few years
ago. The local dealer had a "garage sale" and I picked up an entire upgrade
kit minus logic board for $1. It had the manual, stickers, and another copy of
system software 1.1 like my Woz box came with, but most importantly, the metal 
bottom and plastic standoffs to mount up a logic board. So I added the top 
part of a //e case and I was set. Man I wish I could find more of those
sales, can't find $10 IW network cards, $20 HS SCSI cards, and $20 workstation
cards still shrinkwrapped just anywhere.

If you can't luck out like this, I'd try the mail order places like Shreve.
They've gotten some bad hype lately but they came through for me with a
replacement Mac 128 case when my 128 got damaged in shipping. No one else
had 'em and they had more than one.

Oh yeah, FWIW, I use a grey //e style power supply in my upgrade box. It has
the same aluminum box as most newer IIgs supplies, but with a //e connector.
-- 
Randy Shackelford                                 
shack@frii.com