Re: Laser 128

[scraft@graphics.rent.com (Steve Craft)]

tombaker@world.std.com (Tom A Baker) writes:
> 
> Nice machine, but there are two gotchas that you might think about.  One
> is that the serial port is NOT wired up the same as Apple's, so a lot
> of communication programs will just hang when you try them; other programs
> will work just fine.  (One that won't is the America Online software.)
> 
> A second is the little switch on the bottom of the machine for Slot 5.
> I *think* I might have this right (please someone tell me I'm wrong about
> this) but the documentation seems to say that ...
> 
>     You can set the switch one way, and use Slot 5 to hold something like
>     a meg of internal RAM, or ...
>     You can set the switch the other way and use the external connector
>     for a hard drive and a RAM card, both as Slot 5, ...
>     But you can't do both.
> 
The slot 5 switch and slot 7 switch are what make the 128 superior to the 
//c.  Set slot5 to external and you can put any card into that left-hand 
slot.  Set slot5 to internal and you can add 1meg of RAM (or 
256/512/768k).  Set slot7 to internal and you can hook up a 3.5", set it 
to external and you can hook up any card to the card expansion box (which 
allows slots 5 & 7)that connects to the slot onthe left side.

There is a patch so AOL can work on a Laser, but I have not personally 
seen it.  I still use my 128/EX while I await a Pegasus for my GS...

 
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