Re: AE PC Transporter

[gospodin@clubi.ie (Vincent Quinn)]

In article <77f162$11go$2@lynx.unm.edu>,
buggie@ben09.unm.edu (stephen e buggie) wrote:

>The PC-TRANSPORTER that I got in a junked IIgs cpu has a mini-card called
>"AE COLOR-SWITCH." (1987).  A 5-pin db-15 plug connects to the RGB socket,
>then to the mini-board, then to PC Transporter.  The color-switch has a
>db-15 socket on the board.

PCT itself outputs digital video. The ColorSwitch converts it to analogue,
so you can use your regular Apple IIGS RGB monitor with the PCT. Connect
the cable with the 15-pin plug to the ColorSwitch and to the GS RGB socket;
connect your GS monitor cable to the ColorSwitch's own 15-pin socket;
connect ColorSwitch via ribbon cable to PCT (location J6).

You can also use a digital CGA monitor with the PCT - it hooks up to the
same set of pins (location J6) on PCT that the cable from the ColorSwitch
hooks up to (so you can't use both at once). The CGA cable is pretty simple
- it's a straight-through cable, ten pins at the PCT end, nine pins at the
CGA monitor socket end. One of the wires (either number 1 or number 10) is
cut away - I don't know which.

You can also use PCT with a regular IIe mono/composite NTSC monitor with
yet another cable, running between pins J2 on the PCT and pins J13 on the
IIe motherboard - it uses only two of the pins at J13 (again, I don't know
which - the picture in the manual looks like it is the centre two).

Vincent Quinn