Re: Whats your GS setup like?

["John E. Townsend" <utownje@lexis-nexis.com>]

At the moment, my IIgs system is lying around in pieces while I'm getting it fixed
back up, but here's what it normally looks like:

   * ROM 3 motherboard in a "Woz Limited Edition" case
   * MEM slot:  CV-RAM card with 7M installed (8M total RAM)
   * Slot 1:  SoundMeister stereo/digitizer card;  AppleTalk on printer port
   * Slot 2:  ZipGSX 12MHz/64K accellerator card; 14.4K bps faxmodem on modem port
   * Slot 3:  Apple II Video Overlay Card
   * Slot 4:  AST VisionPlus video digitizer card
   * Slot 5:  Apple II Superdrive Controller card with two 1.44M FDHD 3.5" disk
     drives
   * Slot 6:  AE PC Transporter with two 5.25" MFM drives; two Apple 5.25 Drives on
     disk port
   * Slot 7:  RamFAST Rev D/1M cache SCSI card

Note that this system requires a bit of custom cabling to get the output of the VOC
through the PCT's ColorSwitch board.  It also allows me to use all the slots with
very little switching of slot configurations needed on the control panel (e.g. I
can't use the PCT and Apple 5.25 drives at the same time).

I used to have an Econ Technologies Pegasus internal 200M SCSI hard drive/power
supply in it, but the power supply apparently got fried (can't imagine why :-/ ).
Now I'm contemplating putting the whole setup in a PC tower case (I figure a 250W
power supply couldn't hurt).  BTW, to anyone out there who's interested in trying
to fix the Pegasus power supply, you're welcome to have it (sans drive mechanism,
of course) at a nominal cost.  Actually, only the -5V output of the thing is bad,
and it works fine except when I try to use AppleTalk or a card that requires -5V.

One interesting historical note about this system:  I got the motherboard some
years ago out of a system I got from the guy who originally wrote the
METAL/FutureVision BBS software (TC Wilson, if I remember the name correctly) after
he finally blew up for the last time and kicked the A2 bucket.  He must've been a
major chain smoker, because that thing reeked big-time of cigarrettes and the case
was browner than a beige IIe when I got it.  I took the motherboard out, cleaned it
up, and put it in my Woz case.

--
John E. Townsend
Sr. Software Engineer          "Machines should work;
LEXIS-NEXIS                     people should think."
Dayton, OH, USA                        -- IBM Polyanna Principle
utownje@lexis-nexis.com