Re: AppleTalk GS to Mac filesharing?

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

Jim.Low@logicbbs.org wrote:
: Commenting on Randy Shackelf...
: "The next thing I'd suggest is putting the the hard disk in slot 6.
: How often do you actually use 5.25 disks and the hard disk at the
: same time?"
:  
: That's what I considered with my two Apple IIgs systems.  In one, I have a 
: standard RAM card in slot 6, creating a 1 meg RAMDisk I call (what else) 
: /RAM6.  In the other, I have a SCSI card for a hard drive in slot 6.  
: Although I have 5.25" floppy drives on both systems, I rarely use them.  
: When I do need them, I simply make the appropriate change in the control 
: panel and do without either the /RAM6 or the SCSI hard drive.  On the IIgs 
: with the SCSI card in slot 6, I also have an old Sider ][ hard drive card in 
: slot 2, so am still not working hard driveless.

I have a ROM 3 with a slinky in slot 5, a superdrive card in slot 6, a HS
SCSI in slot 7, and appletalk in slot 1. I don't keep any 5.25s connected
normally, because why? But I could always connect one and swap the 3.5s out.
It's much handier to have a hard disk and networking with a ROM 3.

: Sure could use more slots.  Slot 7 is needed for Appletalk in my needs.  
: Guess I could use slot 4 if I didn't need a mouse...

Another benefit of a ROM 3. Native software will work with the mouse switched
out of slot 4.

: By the way, I discovered if you place an old Disk ][ controller card in any 
: slot below 5, it won't work unless you set the Control Panel speed to 
: "Normal."

Yep the processor slows down when disk II hardware addresses are accessed in
5, 6, and 7, but not the lower slots.
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Randy Shackelford                                 I was internet
shack@southwind.net                               when internet wasn't cool