Re: GS upgrade for IIe?

["Dave Killeffer" <dmk9561@tntech.edu>]

Yeah, go ahead and email that to me.  I don't know exactly what address it
shows on this screen, but send it to mailto:davek@multipro.com.  Thanks.

Mark Cummings <figjams@primus.com.au> wrote in message
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> Dave,
>
> Yes it was an upgrade, you took the machine into Apple for the upgrade. I
> have a picture of one I could e-mail. Someone sold one on e-bay some time
> back, so I kept the picture. It's about a 31K jpg.
> The modification involved swapping or altering the baseplate of the case
as
> well. This would be the only messy part if you were to hack a standard IIe
> case.
> Not all GS motherboards can be used, only the ones with the power and the
> keyboard connector. I have 2x ROM-1's and only one has the connectors. The
> ROM-3's don't have the connectors either, nor could you add them. It would
> be possible to add the connectors to the ROM-1's that don't have them, but
> that would require exceptional soldering skills.
>
> You do lose some feature(s) of a regular GS. I only know of this one...
> The GS keyboard is on the ADB bus along with the mouse. This is where some
> software compatability comes in. Adding a GS keyboard and mouse would get
> around that, but then you might as well put it back in a GS case.
> I think the other issue was with early IIe power supplies, which are rated
> lower than the standard GS one.
>
> Mark
>
>