Re: Slot-dependant cards?

[shack@frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

Edhel Iaur, Esq. (drsmooth@relex.com) wrote:
: Will the AppleMouse II function just as well in any slot?  I mean,
: will programs such as PublishIt!, MousePaint, MouseTalk, Music
: Construction Set, et al. properly find it?  And will "slikny" RAM
: cards, like RAMFactor, be recognised by most/all programs, no matter
: what slot they're in?

Slinky cards are cool in any slot. Slot 7 had better work for the mouse
card, since that's where it is in the memory expandable //c and //c plus.
All software except that written by dolts will locate the card wherever
it is.

: I have an 80-column card, so I know slot 3 is out, I have a
: Mockingboard clone, so I know slot 4 is out, and I have a Disk ][, so
: I know slot 6 is out.  The mouse *seems* to work fine in slot 7
: (doesn't everything? :) ), but I was thinking about getting a RAM card
: or hard drive, and I don't know if they need to be there.

Since you have a //e if I remember right, you need to put the device you want
to boot from in the highest slot. It's a good idea to have intelligent devices
in higher slots than the 5.25s. For instance, with the unidisk card in slot 7
and the 5.25 card in slot 6 in my //e, the box boots from the unidisk if 
there's a disk in the drive, and skips down to slot 6 if not. I never figured
out why Apple didn't set up //c's like my //e is slot wise: 3.5 in slot 7,
5.25 in 6, slinky in 5, mouse in 4.
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Randy Shackelford                                 
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