TransWarp GS users Beware Gold! (II Alive Fall issue correction)

[rubywand@aol.com]

     Bill Shuff, author of the "Go for the Gold" piece in the Fall issue
of II Alive emailed a note pointing out an important _editing_ error in
the step for construction of the accelerator cable by TWGS users.

     The published piece says that ONE pair of leads must be slit and
reversed and suggests that you use your original as a guide to pick the
pair. This is NOT correct. Bill comments: 

>>
.... You rendered the discussion of
the TWGS cable completely nonsensical, inaccurate and worthless to
anyone wanting to build such a cable.  

The ribbon cable for the TWGS must be slit into 20 pairs of wires not
into one pair and each pair of wires must be given a twist to reverse
the wires.  Since the original cable has NO twisted pairs of wires at
all, there is no way anyone could examine their old cable as you
suggested and see how to make the wire twists. Certainly, there is not
one twisted pair of wires in either my cable or the original cable!  I
suspect that my statement that wires at one END of the cable must be
silt into pairs, was interpreted as one EDGE by you and from there the
description of my cable and the stock cable departed completely from
reality.  Since I used the word "pairs" repeatedly I fail to see how
that became one "pair" of wires in the article that you attributed to
me.   
<<

     Below is the original text from Bill describing the extra "twisting
step" required for TWGS cable construction:

>>
To make a TransWarp GS cable it is necessary to slit one end of the 
cable into adjacent pairs of wires for a length of about 3/4� using a 
razor blade.  Twist each pair with a needle nose pliers or tweezers or 
your fingers so that each pair of wires will be reversed when the pairs 
are slipped into the thinner socket connecter.  Push the wires from side 
to side to set each one under the appropriate connection point and crimp 
the connector over the wires.  This is a tricky operation, a misplaced 
or un-twisted wire will result in a non-functional cable.  A pair of ice 
cream pop sticks cut to half-width and held together at one end with a 
rubber band serves as a handy tool to hold the twisted pairs in position 
as they are slipped into the connector.
<<

     I do apologize to Bill and to our TWGS readers. It is annoying to
have a piece published with an error inserted by someone else.

     The 'Good News' is that directions aimed at TWGS users in the edited
version do not make sense and are impossible to follow. (The directions
for the Zip-GS cable are okay, since there are no reversals.) 

     The 'Bad News' is that, due to _my_ error, Bill's article contain's
an error and TWGS users will have to wait until the Winter issue, a note
in some other Apple II publication, or this posting to get directions
which make sense.


Rubywand