Re: Apple IIe Card

[KP <kjpmail@gmail.com>]

On Oct 14, 10:47 am, Mike Maginnis <mmagin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2011-10-14 04:22:36 +0000, Mike Spurgeon said:
>
> > On 10/13/2011 7:14 PM, D Finnigan wrote:
>
> >> Apple's Tech Info Library article 8458 lists the following models as IIe
> >> card
> >> compatible: LC, Colour Classic, LC II, LC III, LC 475, LC 520, LC 550, LC
> >> 575, Quadra 605, Performa 4XX, Performa 55X, Performa 56X, Performa 57X.
>
> >> The Colour Classic II is not listed in Apple's article but *may* work. No
> >> other model will work. "
>
> > It uses the same motherboard as the newer Performas, hence has a PDS
> > slot, so it should.  Must have been newer than the list...
>
> IIRC, there were a couple of models like that which could be made to
> work "unofficially".  This is from the hazy, dark cobwebs of my memory
> so I could be a bit off, but essentially you had to reduce the amount
> of RAM in these machines to 8 MB, at which point 24-bit addressing
> could be re-enabled in Mac OS 7.5.5 or earlier and the card would work.
>  When I was researching this hack, I wrote down the names of a couple
> of models in which it was supposed to work; I'll have to dig that up
> again to sure.
>
> Ivan Drucker put together a great presentation for KansasFest about
> this card a year or two ago.  You can download it from the KansasFest
> website in the Sessions Archive area.
>
> --
> - Mike
>
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Would the IIe card work on a Performa 600?