Re: Apple IIe & Super Serial Card

[Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net>]

In article <1112488722.508786.186090@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
 "jkalin196511@yahoo.com" <jkalin196511@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I have been tying to get my Apple IIe to print with a Apple ImageWriter
> II printer.  I changed the switches on the Super Serial Card 677-8020-A
> accordiding to this website:
> 
> http://members.soltec.net/~cbsc/512k/iwset.html.
> 
> Now when I turn on the computer, it won't boot, and unfortuantly I
> didn't write down what the switches were set at before I changed them.
> 
> Does anyone know how to configure the card so it with both boot and
> print?
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> Later,
> Jim
> 

Switch settings on a SSC won't have any effect on booting. They can't - 
They don't come into play until after the equivalent of a PR#/IN# 
command aimed at the slot the card is in happens. 

More likely, you haven't got the card seated properly in the slot.

That, or you've got the SSC in a higher-numbered slot than the drive 
controller card, so the SSC is getting treated as a boot device (which 
would be fairly bizzare in and of itself - The signature bytes are 
wrong, so it shouldn't be possible for the boot code to select it as a 
legitimate device to attempt booting from)

Sounds to me like your trouble is somewhere other than the SSC...

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