Re: Trackstar Questions...

[volk@seas.smu.edu (Andrew Volk)]

In article <1FEB199421390918@jetson.uh.edu> st3b1@jetson.uh.edu (Fretz, David) writes:
>In article <2im646$4ff@news.u.washington.edu>, cyanea@u.washington.edu (Bill Whitson) writes...
>>Just got my Trackstart E after about a year of looking and
>>now that it's time to hook things up I've got a few
>>questions (hopefully there are people out there that have
>>one.)
>> 
>>-The card only appears to have support for a 9-pin video
>>connector.  Is there any way to hook it up to a VGA
>>monitor (a simple adaptor perhaps)?
>
>Nope VGA is Analog while EGA/CGA is digital.

The Trackstar Plus uses VGA, I have one, is that different than the Tracsktar
E?

>>-Can the Trackstar use prodos or is 3.3 it's standard?
>
>Never tried Prodos but I guess it should be able if the ROM are any good.

Again, the Trackstar Plus uses Prodos w/out a problem, dunno if it's the
same for Trackstar E.

>>-Were there ever any upgrades to the trackstar?  Hard drive
>>support (yeah, I'm dreaming - but it would be really cool), 3.5"
>>floppy, etc.?  Is the company that made these still around?

The Trackstar Plus supported creating up to 2 partions on a PC hard drive
for Prodos hard drives, it worked like a charm. Still use it all the time,
I got one of the last ones they made.

>>Thanks for any info. you can give me.
>> 
>>-Bill
>> 
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