Re: Replacement fan for the IIGS

[Jeff Blakeney <CUTjblakeney@sympatico.ca>]

On 23 Oct 2005 06:27:45 GMT, Roger Johnstone <rojaws@orcon.net.nz>
wrote:

>Hold on though, I only count three cards there. My point was that if 
>Apple had allowed you to map each physical slot to a slot address you 
>would only need as many slots as you had cards.
>
>For example you could have your SCSI card in slot A and then use the 
>control panel to map the card in slot A to the slot 2 address, or you 
>could change it to slot 5 without having to even open the IIGS.
>
>The ROM 3 motherboard is better then the original IIGS, in that from GS/
>OS you can use both a card and the built-in port at the same time, but 
>you'd still have fun trying to fill it with seven active cards without 
>losing a lot of functionality somewhere.

Well how about this setup?

Slot 1: Parallel interface
Slot 2: Ethernet card
Slot 3: Video Overlay Card or SecondSight VGA card
Slot 4: Accelerator (ZipGS or TranswarpGS)
Slot 5: 3.5" HDFD controller
Slot 6: Hard drive controller
Slot 7: Sound card
Memory Expansion Slot: 4 - 8 MB memory card

Slot 1 can be used for a serial, parallel or AppleTalk connection.
       With certain software both the internal serial and the parallel
       card might be able to be used with the control panel set to
       "Your Card".  I doubt the AppleTalk feature will continue to
       work with the control panel set to "Your Card".
Slot 2 can be used for a serial, network or AppleTalk connection.
       With certain software both the internal serial and the network
       card might be able to be used with the control panel set to
       "Your Card".  I doubt the AppleTalk feature will continue to
       work with the control panel set to "Your Card".
Slot 3 can be used for 80 column as well as other neat video stuff.
       Both the 80 column and video features should work with the
       control panel set to "Your Card".
Slot 4 can be used for a mouse and accelerator.  Both the mouse and
       the accelerator will work with the control panel set to
       "Mouse Port".  On the ROM 3 it should also work with the
       control panel set to "Your Card".
Slot 5 can be used for the built in 3.5" controller as well as the
       3.5" HDFD controller.  You should only need the HDFD card
       active as it will also control 800KB floppies so you can set
       the control panel to "Your Card".
Slot 6 can be used for the built in 5.25" controller as well as the
       hard drive controller.  Most people do not need access to their
       5.25" drives when running from their hard drive so you can set
       the control panel to "Your Card" to use the hard drive or set
       it to "Disk Port" to use 5.25" drives.
Slot 7 can be used for the built in AppleTalk as well as powering a
       sound card with the control panel set to "AppleTalk".  If the
       sound card has its own sound digitizing hardware, you'd have to
       set the control panel to "Your Card" to be able to digitize
       sound.

The memory expansion slot just holds as much memory as you want or as
much as your power supply still has capacity to run.  :-)

And no, I don't quite have this set up but I wish I did.  :-)

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