Re: Broken ROM 03 GS BRAM battery clip

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Sean Fahey wrote:
> "RichardK-PB" <atari@NOSPAMbtconnect.com> wrote in message
> 35n2o9F4mj6lhU1@individual.net">news:35n2o9F4mj6lhU1@individual.net...
>
> > It's a 32-bit addressing issue. The IIe card will not work in
32-bit
> > addressing. I don't know if the CS card is incompatible with that
now;
> > I've sold my Mystic - but I'd also read that it was a problem with
> > registers. Certainly the Apple hardware will not co-exist on a
575/580
> > board, and that's the only CS and LC slot machine you'll find other
than
> > the Performa PPC crap like the 5200. IIe card in a CC? Fine, but
you
> > don't get ethernet. Perhaps the Sonnet is less touchy, but from
what I
> > read about addressing, it sounds highly unlikely that the two
devices
> > would function at the same time.
> >
> > Note that dropping to 24-bit addressing did allow the IIe card to
work,
> > but switching back to 32-bit didn't make the CS card work.
>
> I completely agree with everything you said.
>
> IMO, the optimal option for all concerned - if you must indulge in a
Color
> Classic fetish, upgrade it all the way up to a Takky. You'll get to
use OS
> 9, run Bernie (quite well I might add) and have your Ethernet too....
and
> you can also add a TV card, if you really want to go all out.
Watching TV on
> a monitor that small is annoying though.

Well, to each his own. I want the IIe card. With the Mystic mod I can
definitely have the IIe card OR the ethernet card, and it's no big deal
to slide out the system board and swap cards.

I would like to have a Takky in addition to the Mystic, but I'm not
giving up my Mystic. 
-Paul