Re: Testing an apple ii scsi card without a scsi hard drive?

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Wayne Stewart" <waynejstewart@gmail.com> wrote in message news:b6
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> I'm guessing that you mean there's an empty socket on the card.
> The only socketed chip on the original Apple II SCSI card was
> the EPROM.

Not true, the PLDs are socketed, and my PALs have been replaced
with GALs thanks to Henry and his entourage. PALs requires very
specific hardware and software to read them, where there is still
quite good hardware that can read a GAL. My GALEP-4 reads most of
them very easily.

> If this is correct then you'll need an EPROM before there's any
> chance it'll do anything.

Absolutely, true. The EPROM is the firmware/software code that
runs the card.

Bill