Re: Slot 3 and Slot Shortage

[Tom Zuchowski <cd003508@interramp.com>]

louiss@gate.net             (Louis Schulman) wrote:
>I have an enhanced //e with too few slots.  There is a 64k 80 column card in the
>aux slot.
>
>Is there any kind of card that can coexist in slot 3?  I thought a Softcard might,
>but the CP/M bootdisk can't find it.
>
>Any other solutions to Slot shortage?

All of the TransWarp CPU accelerators will work in Slot 3.  I don't know 
of anything else that will do so.  A SoftCard =could= work there if it was 
programmed for it, but apparently it wasn't.  Not surprising since CP/M 
was on its way out the door by the time the II+ started to become scarce.

What are presently in your slots? Perhaps there is a way to economize your 
present setup.  Two obvious possibles are the use of a no-slot clock and a 
different disk controller. Another is the use of a large auxslot RAMcard 
such as the RamWorks or Q-Ram rather than regular slot-using RAMcards. If 
you have a mouse, you might want to take a hard look at your reasons for 
keeping it installed.

All of my slots are in use, but I have a slot-using clock, four floppies, 
and hard drive, among other things.  When I got my hard drive, I had to 
dump my mouse.  I haven't missed it.  I have 3MB in the auxslot and no RAM 
in regular slots.

TomZ