Re: PCT Help?

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <4tk9qe$k2r@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>, cvotter@prairienet.org (Gary
Sutton) wrote:

>I've got this PC Transporter with 256k RAM installed

Are you sure about that?  With only 256K RAM, the PCT is totally useless
as a PC.  It uses up 128K of the RAM just to hold the BIOS and some other
internal stuff, so that would leave you with 128K to use it as a PC, which
isn't enough to run anything useful (after you have loaded MS-DOS 3.x, you
would have about 64K left).

You should fully populate the PCT (to 768K) to get full use out of it.

>Can someone send me concise, step-by-step instructions to get it to work?

Not all that easy.  Setting up the PC side generally involves a fair
amount of fiddling in the PC Transporter control panel.  Details will also
vary widely depending on the hardware configuration of your PCT, installed
disk drives, and other devices on the Apple II side that you want to use.

>I'm running on an Apple IIGS:  1.25 Meg, 800K 3.5" disk drive, and GS OS 5.04.

I assume you have no drive connected to the PC Transporter?  As things
stand, you cannot possibly use it as a PC, because you don't have enough
disk drives.

At the very least, you would need another Apple 3.5 Drive (or a TransDrive
5.25" or 3.5" drive), connected to the PC Transporter.

Ideally, you should get a hard drive if you want to do anything practical
with the PC Transporter.  You could then connect your existing 3.5" drive
to the PC Transporter while you are setting it up, and put it back on the
IIgs disk port after you have it up and running.

>Can the PCT actually be used (no matter how complicated the process) 
>under this particular configuration?)

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