Re: Conflicts with floppy? Where do I start?

["sfahey" <sfahey@a2central.com.remove-9hd-this>]

  To: savant42
  Re: Re: Conflicts with floppy? Where do I start?
  By: savant42 to comp.sys.apple2 on Mon May 17 2010 09:38 am

 > that having a card in the AUX slot will disable slot 3.

No, it's not disabled -- the Aux slot shares some of the same address lines
with slot 3, so there is a potential for cards to conflict.

You can put a serial card, Uthernet, Transwarp... several cards in slot 3 with
no worries.

Slots are all purpose, but some standards have been established:

Slot 1: serial printer interface, parallel printer interface
slot 2: serial modem interface, slinky RAM
slot 3: Uthernet, accelerators
slot 4: Z80 cards, co-processors, mice, sound cards, slinky RAM
slot 5: 3.5 controllers, secondary 5.25 controllers, etc.
slot 6: primary 5.25 controller, etc.
slot 7: IDE, SCSI, SASI controllers or anything else

By no means exhaustive list, but slot 4 is probably the most contested slot for
various products.

Sean Fahey
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