Re: The //gs's power supply ...

[pbauer@athena.mit.edu (Paul H Bauer)]

In article <Sep.30.09.29.08.1993.1609@trident.usacs.rutgers.edu*
scraft@trident.
usacs.rutgers.edu (Steve Craft) writes:
*
***  I have an apple //gs which I'd like to add a HD... I've bought a
***scsi card, and a seagate drive mechanism... the question is:  Do I
***have enough spare power in my gs's stock power supply to power the
***driver, or is it best to provide the drive with it's own dedicated
***supply.
**        The setup I built is a 2e to GS conversion with the hard
**drive located under the keyboard and a RamFast vs. c to interface
**with the GS. This makes an almost portable GS....if only I could
**find a liquid crystal display I'd be all set.Since the drive is from
**a laptop I don't think I'll experience the drive problems friends
**have had from transporting their systems to user-group meetings.Best
**of luck and let me know by E-mail if you have any questions.
*
*
*What both of you need is a Pagesus housing.  $200 from Econ Technologies.
*It replaces your exosting IIGS power supply with one somewhere between the
*stock ps and the heavy-duty ps.  Inside the housing the ps only takes up
*1/4 the space, so the rest is reserved for a 3.5" drive mechanism.  Take
*any 3.5" drive, plop it in the housing, connect the cables in the housing,
*set the SCSI ID and other DIPs on the outside of the housing, connect
*your cabling to your SCSI card, and you're ready to go.  No pseudo-
*portability for your GS, with a Pegasus you get _real_ portability.  And
*It's better than a hardcard because you can easily swap another drive
*in/out of the housing, chain any other SCSI device, and can carry it
*from place to place or turn the GS on it's side.  Highly recommended,
*and comes with Universe Master software.  Have a problem, you get to talk to
*the President/Chief Engineer of the company himself.  I can't emphasize
*in ASCII how great the Pegasus and Econ people are!
 
I've got all of that and it only cost me $50 plus a little of my time
and ingenuity.
 
                pbauer@mit.edu
        paulb@Pro-applebcs.cts.com
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