Re: PC TransPorter: What are its non-IBM uses?

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buggie@ben09.unm.edu (stephen e buggie) wrote:

>Someone got me a dead IIgs CPU at a yard sale.  Inside it was a RAM card
>and .... PC Transporter!
>
>I have absolutely no interest in using PC TransPorter to run old IBM
>software.   BUT, I heard somewhere, long ago, that this card has other
>uses, such as a RAM card 640K.  Is this true???

When not in PC mode, the PCT acts as a 768k RAM card.
It also acts like a 3.5" disk drive controller and you can also
use properly wired PC style disk drives with it.  The card
contains a SWIM controller like in Macs.

>Can it also be used as a db-19 disk drive controller?  Can it run one or
>two platinum 3.5 800K drives on a IIe???

It sure can and more than that, it will let you read and write
720k DS/DD 3.5" MS-DOS disks using a regular platinum
3.5" 800k drive!

>Any other ordinary uses for it?

You can use the card to transfer files from Windows/DOS
formatted disks to the Apple II.

>That is the simplest test I can do to PC-TransPorter to check
>whether it works???

Boot the PCT system disk.  You can find it at:
http://ground.ecn.uiowa.edu/apple2/apple8/Pgms/pctbootvol.shk

Good luck!