Re: Whats it for?

[CUTjefbla@bconnex.net (Jeff Blakeney)]

On Fri, 22 Jun 2001 21:00:45 +1000, "Mark Cummings"
<NOTfigjams@primus.com.au> wrote:

>Or the power supply was opened up so the cables could be moved out a little,
>it doesn't look too hard.
>The speaker could have been moved to the front right hand side nearer to the
>speaker connector. Maybe this was part of the new base design.

I'm not sure about the power supply cable but yes, the speaker was on
the front right side of the base plate in the IIe to IIgs upgrade.  I
upgrade my IIe because the only cards I had for the IIe were a Disk ][
controller and an extended 80 column card.  The upgrade gave me the
equivalent of an accelerator, memory expansion, two serial interfaces,
an RGB interface, a better disk controller, a better keyboard
controller, a mouse interface, a graphics card, a sound card and an
AppleTalk network interface.  Quite the deal for $600 CDN when I
bought it in 1988.  :)

After getting it, I used it as a fast IIe for a while and added parts
slowly until I could use it as a real IIgs.  One of the first things I
did was I traded a guy my IIe keyboard for a Mac SE ADB keyboard.  I
ended up with a big hole in my IIe/gs case but the Mac SE keyboard sat
nicely over top the hole without slipping as the rubber feet on it
were perfectly positioned.  :)

After getting an ADB mouse, 3.5" drive and an Apple 1 MB memory card,
I finally ordered a IIgs case as a replacement part from one of the
local Apple dealers and move my IIgs motherboard out of the IIe case
and into a real IIgs case.  I had to keep using my IIe power supply as
an external supply for quite some time but it worked and it looked
better.  It also gave me the ability to get a CV-Tech memory card and
piggy back my Apple card on it which the IIe case wouldn't let me do
unless I cut a piece out of it.

I kept the old case for quite some time but I guess I lost it in one
of my moves 5-10 years ago.  :/

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