Re: Apple IIgs Upgrade From Apple //e

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

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In article <9Bn_9.1046$ce4.542970@twister.socal.rr.com>,
Bryan Villados <news002@macgeek.org> wrote:
>Depends on whether you're a collector or a user. The IIe case has major
>collector appeal because of its scarity, and it's just one more flavor of
>IIGS to collect, kind of like collecting all of McDonald's Hello Kitty
>series. For a user, it'a actually a bottleneck because a few Apple IIGS
>cards won't fit in the IIe case. And, if the logic board burns out, it's
>very difficult to find a replacment seeing the logic board needs the IIe
>keyboard connector and power supply connector.

Adding those connectors (if they aren't already present) isn't too big a
deal...I added a numeric-keypad connector to mine.  I suspect that someplace
like DigiKey would have both connectors.  Another possibility would be to
splice a different connector onto the power supply leads to plug into the
IIGS's normal power-supply connector.

As for the expansion cards, the only one I've run across that wouldn't drop
in was the Sequential RAM-GS, and that was fixed with a few minutes with a
Dremel.  (There are no traces in the corner that needs to be trimmed off.)

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