Re: Woz GS differences

[mustb5@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Shawn T Beattie)]

dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) writes:

>There is no point using a IIe power supply in a real IIgs case, because
>there is nowhere to mount it.  The IIgs power supply sits above the
>motherboard, while the IIe one sits alongside the motherboard (and is
>screwed onto the case).

Any ideas why Apple would use a different power supply connector for the
IIGS than they did for the //e and ][+?  I can see why they used a
different keyboard--the advantages of ADB.  

>Any original IIgs motherboard is able to support the IIe power supply
>and keyboard - you would just need to install the connectors if they are
>not present already.

>The ROM 3 (1 megabyte IIgs) removed support for the IIe upgrade.  The
>keyboard micro and GLU dropped support for scanning the IIe keyboard
>(but gained keyboard mouse, sticky keys and some additional support for
>extended keyboards), and neither connector is provided.

Interesting...they dropped the keyboard and power supply connectors (what 
about the numeric keypad connector?), but kept the //e game I/O connector?
I guess there are a lot of data collection devices out there that used the
game connector, and they wanted to continue support for that...

Shawn