Re: Apple IIgs in IIe case?

[shack@southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <958700450.860988@chakotay.ncc74656.org>,
Scott Alfter <salfter@chakotay.ncc74656.org> wrote:

>>About four years ago, I wrote an article (II ALIVE magazine) on the
>>"stealth-GS," how to install a IIgs motherboard into a IIe casing.  I've
>>made five of them, and they all work.
>>[...]
>>The advantages of the Stealth-GS are that its less prone to theft, it
>>allows continued use of the IIe keyboard (great feel of keys!), and
>>accessories such as system saver IIe.

Well the theft angle might be so for homemade upgrades, but since people
say that legit upgrades are scarce, that might make one of those more
theft prone. As if anyone would go around swiping Apple II stuff that
might just as easily be found in dumpsters nowadays.

>The only disadvantage I can recall (and it's kinda small) is that some
>memory-expansion cards won't fit without modification.  I upgraded my IIe to
>a IIGS back in '92 with a kit that Shreve Systems was selling.  I replaced
>my AE RamWorks III with Sequential's RAM-GS, but I had to clip the top front
>corner off to get it to fit.  I was a little bit nervous about taking a
>Dremel to a brand-new (and somewhat expensive) piece of hardware, but I
>checked first to make sure no signal traces were in that part of the card,
>and it's worked fine for the past seven years that way.

When I built one from parts rummaged from a dealer's "garage sale" I had
to locate a Chinook card to fit in there. It's a 4 mb card that looks just
like Apple's 1 mb card, complete with sloping edge at the front to make
it //e case friendly. Man I had to spend $140 to get it back in '92 or
whenever it was that I built that box.

>Since then, I've installed a clone-type 250W power supply inside my GS (take
>the power-supply board out of its metal box and it'll barely fit...mount the
>fan over a hole cut out under the keyboard), and one of these days I'll move
>the hard drive inside the case (now that it's a single 320-meg drive instead
>of a pair of 40s).

I put in a grey //e style supply, which is the same as a IIgs but with a
//e style connector. I figure they're a bit better built than the supplies
from the heyday of ][ pluses and //e's.
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