Re: Mystery little IIGS board

["william strutts" <wrstrutts1@nospam.home.com>]

"Galen Tatsuo Komatsu" <gkomatsu@Hawaii.Edu> wrote in message
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> Yesterday I nabbed from a thrift a IIGS CPU since there's
> a Transwarp GS board in it...before any starts commenting on the
> find though, upon getting home I noticed a note scribbled on the
> case saying "Transwarp acting up".

Sounds like my sound card I bought...I found out it has a blown
chip and I am not good with a soldering iron. A genuine
Mockingboard for a IIe. Too bad.

> But that's not the topic of this message (though if there's
> list of common TWGS problems, I wouldn't mind hearing it.)
>
> There's a little board maybe 2 square inches in size mounted
> to the first slot (the openings in back, not the card slots)  Out the
> back there's a 1/8" minijack.  Internally, there's a ribbon cable
> that runs to the other corner of the motherboard, and plugged into
> J25, and another wire, not plugged in as I found it, but judging from
> the length, probably plugs into the Fan connector right under it.
> Back side indicates it's from Roger Wagner Publishing and has an
> "FCC ID: HYORWIIGS"
>
> Educated guess has me thinking this is a microphone input
> for Hyperstudio?  Quick google search notes J25 being used for sound
> input.  I just answer my own question? if so, then tell me more about
> it instead, like can I read it like the old cassette input?
>

Yup. I have one of those too. Not very useful unless you have
Hyperstudio.

>
> ...and how much will this fetch on eBay? =^)  Kidding, I'll probably
> just throw this in my slowly growing IIGS.  Now if I can only find the
> High Speed SCSI card at that store (found the box but no card. =^(
>
I have an Apple HS SCSI I bought at Goodwill for $1 in a working IIgs.

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