Re: Slot 3 and Slot Shortage

[scraft@bigpapa.nothinbut.net ()]

In article <4rdkug$5c5@usenet4.interramp.com>, Tom Zuchowski wrote:
>louiss@gate.net             (Louis Schulman) wrote:
>>I have an enhanced //e with too few slots.  There is a 64k 80 column card in the
>>aux slot.
>>
>>Is there any kind of card that can coexist in slot 3?  I thought a Softcard might,
>>but the CP/M bootdisk can't find it.
>>
>>Any other solutions to Slot shortage?
>
[snip]
>What are presently in your slots? Perhaps there is a way to
economize your 
>present setup.  Two obvious possibles are the use of a no-slot clock and a 
>different disk controller. Another is the use of a large auxslot RAMcard 
>such as the RamWorks or Q-Ram rather than regular slot-using RAMcards. If 
>you have a mouse, you might want to take a hard look at your reasons for 
>keeping it installed.
[snipsnip]

Just throwing this out there.  I needed to upgrade my IIe a while ago
for my user's group.  So what did I do?  I bought a used IIGS.  The
ROM01 models can't be more than $100 these days (forgive me if
they are, I am recently returning "home" to my II) and you get lots
more slots because of the built-in function the IIGS gives you.
One other alternative (which I did for years) is to scrounge up a 
Laser 128/EX, you can then switch between slot 7 internal (for the
drive port to use your external 3.5" drive) or slot 7 external
(to stick in any card you want) and slot 5 internal (for RAM5,
you could add 1 meg of chips on the motherboard) or slot 5 external
(to stick in another card provided you had the expansion box).


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