Re: Sirius 4-MB card in IIGS/IIe conversion

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

Jim Pittman (casa@unm.edu) wrote:
: My first Apple IIGS was an "upgrade" in an Apple IIe case. It never
: got much use because it's a ROM 01 and only had a 1-meg memory card.
: The 4-meg memory cards made for "real" IIGSs wouldn't fit under the
: IIe lid: they were square and too high at the keyboard end.

Well not all of 'em, my //e upgrade IIgs has a Chinook RAM 4000 card. This
card is shaped just like the Apple 1 mb card but has 4 mb.

: I installed a 170-meg FOCUS hard drive in this machine so as to have
: a somewhat-more-portable IIGS. There's room in the IIe case for a Zip
: accelerator and a Second Sight card. It appears that a standard IIGS
: power supply (more capacity than the IIe power supply) can fit in the
: IIe case as well. Does anyone know if there's a problem with this?

Yep IIgs power supplies even have the screw holes for mounting in a //e case.
I used one in my upgrade for quite a while. Now it has an unusual power supply
I got in a box of junk parts somewhere, it's the aluminum cased supply like in
some IIgses but it has the //e type power connector.
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