Re: //e card in LC

[loliver@enuxsa.eas.asu.edu (Brad Oliver)]

Ivan Drucker (drucker@lclark.edu) wrote:

: Basically it allows you to set up various parts of the Macintosh as though
: they were slots in the //e.  Thus the printer and modem ports become Super
: Serial Cards, the clock is a clock card, the hard drive and internal 3.5
: are a SmartPort card, mac RAM is on a RAM card, the 5.25 is a 5.25 card,
: etc.  I think there's also an Appletalk card, but I could be wrong.  You

Yeah, there's AppleTalk too.  I wish there was Mockinboard
support...sigh...

: Drive warnings:  the card will ONLY support the 5.25 drive (the platinum
: one, which Apple still sells and lists for $260, if you can believe that),
: and ONLY the Unidisk 3.5" (the white one, not the grey ones often used on
: IIgs's) -- I don't know if Apple still sells it, but you can buy it from

I had the beige 5.25 drives for my old //e.  Even though the manual
specifically says only use the platinum and not the beige, I haven't
had a problem yet...I understand there's also adapters to make old
Disk II's have the same pinouts as the SmartPort compatible platinum
drives.  I might have info on this stashed away somewhere...

As a side note, the ROM is a newer version from around 1992 or so and
I think that some compatibility problems might come from this but I
haven't run across any that I remember.  I do know that some Apple II
programs that claim to read Mac disks don't work.  I can only guess
that it's because the disks need to be unmounted on the Mac desktop
first, which is tough to do.
--
Brad Oliver
brad.oliver@asu.edu

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