Re: Apple II slot assignments

[dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <4o07jb$g8v@wraith.cs.uow.edu.au>,
David E A Wilson <david@wraith.cs.uow.edu.au> wrote:
> Jim.Low@logicbbs.org writes:
> 
> >David Empson mentions he has his SCSI card in slot 4.
> > 
> >Can you still use your mouse with slot 4 set to "Your Card"?  I've never 
> >tried it.  It sure would be nice if I could make use of that slot.
> 
> If it is a ROM3 //gs and you only need the mouse for GS/OS programs, then yes
> you can set slot 4 to your card.

My situation exactly.  I very rarely need a mouse in ProDOS-8 (I don't
use UltraMacros in AppleWorks, because I'm using AppleTalk, and I don't
have Publish-It!), so it seemed a waste of a slot.

The other benefit of having the SCSI card in slot 4 (or lower) is that
you can set the startup slot to 5 (or 6, or Scan, as desired) and allow
the IIgs to boot off a floppy if there is one in the drive, or off the
hard drive otherwise (without having to go into the Control Panel to
change anything each time).

On a ROM 1 IIgs, the only way you can do this without losing any
features of your lower slots would be to use AppleTalk via slot 7 and
put the SCSI card in slot 1.

> If it is a ROM1 or you need the mouse for P8 programs then having a SCSI
> card in slot 4 would disable the mouse.

You can put an Apple IIe mouse card in another slot if you have a ROM
1, and it will be used by GS/OS as well as ProDOS-8.  The ROM 3
doesn't support a IIe mouse card under GS/OS, but will under ProDOS-8.
-- 
David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz
Snail mail: P.O. Box 27-103, Wellington, New Zealand