Re: Looking for IIe-IIgs conversion kit

["Bailer" <bailer@ontis.com>]

I have also made one of these units, if you have the tools you can make the
entire bottom of a GS case fit into a //e keeping all the standoffs and all
of the actual GS ports in the back (takes a lot of grinding and cutting). I
have done mine like this and even from the inside and back side it looks
like a factory unit. I even cut the GS nameplate out and put it on the case.
If there is a lot of interest I could probably find a way to post pictures.

cbailer@ontis.com

stephen e buggie wrote in message <77pi3r$peo$5@lynx.unm.edu>...
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>STEVE TOWNSEND and I have both made "Stealth-IIgs" units ---- IIgs
>motherboard in a IIe casing.
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>Steve Townsend (Tacoma WA) has a technique that is more elegant.  He uses
>long-barrel-washers are are the correct height.  He drills into the metal
>bottom-plate and installs the long barrel-washers.
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>I have not located those parts.   :-(    My method has been to use wooden
>moulding strips of the correct height.  The wooden strips are glued and
>attached to the metal bottom plate.  Then I use nylon washers and short
>wood screws to attach the motherboard to the five wooden strips.  I've
>made three stealth-GS's so far---- all have worked.  No "blown
>motherboards" so far.
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>I will mail my magazine article to anyone who supplies their postal
>address.    Bye, Steve Buggie
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>Randy Shackelford (shack@onyx.southwind.net) wrote:
>: Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote:
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>: :>Thusly, anyone out there with the kit, I'm interested...I'm assuming
this
>: :>includes..
>: :>
>: :>Apple IIgs plate to replace on IIe
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>: Not applicable on a grey IIe since the name is silkscreened on.
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>: :>Replacement baseplate
>: :>Replacement back panel.
>: :>...Anything else?
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>: : You can adapt the current IIe case for the IIGS motherboard.
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>: I'd consider that method a last resort, after I tried to find a real
upgrade
>: kit and given up. At one of the local dealer's "garage sales" way back, I
got
>: a never used upgrade kit still in the box, complete aside from the logic
>: board, for $1. You also could try the normal used hardware mail order
places
>: and possibly turn one up.
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>: A few years back Steve Buggie also set me up with a never used, still in
box
>: //e case top meant for people upgrading the early style //e's whose case
tops
>: don't fit the upgrade bottom part. So I can build a //e that looks like
it
>: just came out of the box one of these days should I choose to.
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>: : First thing, desolder the power and keyboard connectors from the
>: : IIe and solder them into the IIGS ROM 01 motherboard.  Next,
>: : use a dremel tool to cut out openings in the IIe base pan for the
>: : IIGS ports.  Then you are ready to attach the motherboard to the
>: : IIe base pan.
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>: Should you choose this route, also not that the plastic standoffs won't
line
>: up with the holes in a IIgs logic board, and are the wrong shape.
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