Re: Confused about IIGS slots and AppleTalk

[msc1983@mac.com (Matthew Carpenter)]

In article <6INy7.177934$K6.84205862@news2>, "william strutts"
<wrstrutts1@nospam.home.com> wrote:

> "Matthew Carpenter" <msc1983@mac.com> wrote in message
> news:msc1983-1510012005330001@192.168.1.101...
> > Hello,
> >
> >    I have an ROM 01 IIGS.  I am currently waiting for an Apple high Speed
> > SCSI card to arive.  While I have been waiting I have been looking up
> > information about slot configurations but what I have been finding has me
> > a little confused.
> >
> >    what I want to do is be able to have my ImageWriter II connected
> > directly to the printer port(slot 2).  I want to be able to use both 3.5
> > and 5.25 drives(slots 5 and 6).  The mouse(slot 4)....slot 3 is stuck with
> > the 80collumn display... Apple talk on (slot 7...and 1???)
> >
> >    What I'm confused about is when I have slot 1 set for "your card" and
> > slot 7 set for AppleTalk will I be able to put my SCSI card in slot 1?  Or
> > will I have to give something up in order to use the SCSI card?
> >
> > Thanks.
> 
> Does your Imagewriter II have the Appletalk option? You could
> get Appletalk, Localtalk or Phonenet connectors for the printer
> and the computer and put it on a network. That would then allow
> you to use slot 2 for the SCSI card.  You could also get a ROM 3
> machine and put the SCSI card in slot 7.  Or of course give up
> either 5.25 or 3.5 drives.  Another complication is that RAM5
> ram disk will use slot 2 so you would have to give that up too.
> 

The ROM 3 machines sound nice but I always seem to find ROM 01's...heh... 

I've never used RAM disks..... What might I use a RAM disk for?

I really don't want to give up either 3.5 or 5.25 drives....too many
floppies....

My ImageWriter II lacks an AppleTalk card....the only place I've seen one
for it was on e-bay and it went a bit up and above what I was interested
in paying for it....hmm....now that I think of it...maybe I do know where
I could get one cheap....maybe.....
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