Re: Maxed out Apple II computers

[salfter@salfter.diespammersdie.dyndns.org (Scott Alfter)]

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In article <fNGle.2803$3D6.2734@newssvr12.news.prodigy.com>,
Sean Fahey <a2fan@hotmail.com> wrote:
>For giggles and grins, describe your tricked out, best system(s). Kinda like
>a virtual car show for Apple II computers.

My "stealth GS" is equipped with 4.25 MB RAM (used a Dremel to cut the
corner off a Sequential RAM-GS to get it to fit inside a IIe case), an Apple
DMA SCSI card, a ZipGS running at 8 MHz with 64K cache (have had trouble
getting it to reliably run faster than that), and a SoundMeister.  For local
storage, it has a 4.3-GB Seagate Barracuda (connected through an
80-to-50-pin adapter) and 250-MB tape drive in a generic SCSI case and a
Panasonic 4x CD-ROM drive in a Sun case.  The monitor is an NEC MultiSync
3D, and the computer's tied into my LAN through a Cayman GatorBox CS, which
lets it access files on my Ethernet-connected Macs and Linux server.  At
some point, I might move the hard drive back into the computer; it's been in
there before when I had it running with the guts of a 250W PS/2 power supply
running open-frame, and the eMachines-style power supply (with a power
switch hacked in) that's inside now offers even more space for an internal
hard drive.

I've had some more interesting goodies than that in the past, though. 
Before I upgraded my IIe to a IIGS (bought a kit from Shreve Systems back in
'92 or '93 to do that), I had both a 10-MHz RocketChip and a RamWorks 65816
add-on available to me.  The '816 was fun to play around with, but the
RocketChip made programs like AppleWorks and PublishIt! more usable.  With a
mouse card added to the rig, I was cranking out newsletters for the local
Apple user group that people would've thought could only have been done on a
Mac (we had both Apple II & Mac users, with the latter becoming more
numerous).  

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