Re: Couple of //e Questions....

[Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.bc.ca>]

David Wilson wrote:

>
>
> Yes, but //e computers have the 80 col HARDWARE and FIRMWARE on the motherboard
> and all that is required to have it function is some RAM in the Aux slot.
>
> On an NTSC //e you can have a RAM card in the Aux slot and also have a card
> in slot #3 (something that does not need the IOSEL/IOSTB ROM access signals
> but does use the DEVSEL i/o select signal - for example a Stellation Mill
> 6809 co-processor card could have been used there). Unfortunately some bright
> spark at Apple decided to put both slots inline on the PAL //e meaning that
> only one can be used at a time. I have only seen one card that utilises this
> dual slot arrangement, a 64KB 80 col card from Apple Australia with its own
> RCA output socket on the back. It has a single gold finger that enters slot 3
> and picks up -5V if I remember correctly.
> --
> David Wilson  School of IT & CS, Uni of Wollongong, Australia

Yes I agree with you on that. However the matter I was referring to was the
comparison of a slinky card and a RamWorks card. A previous poster mentioned
he thought an advantage of the RamWorks over a slinky card was that it uses
less slots. The contention of the poster was that a RamWorks uses 2 slots on a
PAL IIe.
What I meant was that almost all IIes have a card in the Auxiliary slot  so on the

PAL IIe slot 3 is blocked whether you're using an Apple 80 column card or a
RamWorks. So you'd still be saving a slot since a slinky card would still have to
go in one of the other 6 slots.
In my IIe I ran out of slots a long time ago so I wired some more slots in
parrallel
with slot 2. In this case slot 2 holds a TransWarp,Timemaster II and a Echo II.

    Wayne