Re: Identify card: Premium Softcard //e?

[Sean McNamara <sean@macassist.com.au>]

In article <W4Whd.43613$EZ.335@okepread07>,
 salfter@salfter.diespammersdie.dyndns.org (Scott Alfter) wrote:

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> In article <6aMhd.14818$Al3.11906@newssvr30.news.prodigy.com>,
> Sean Fahey <a2fan@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >"Sean McNamara" <sean@macassist.com.au> wrote in message
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> >> I appear to have scored a Microsoft Premium Softcard //e in a French //e
> >> I was given last week - at least, I think it's a Premium Softcard //e -
> >
> >I believe that card is just a Softcard IIe - the premium can be identified
> >by the processor being located at the bottom and it says "Premium Softcard".
> >I don't know what the differences were - more RAM maybe.
> 
> Comparing the two cards, it looks like the edge connector is in a different
> location on each.  The auxiliary slot is in a different location in NTSC
> IIes (next to the power supply) than it is in PAL or SECAM IIes (in line
> with slot 3, IIRC...haven't ever looked inside one myself), and so different
> versions of the Softcard might've been necessary for the two machine types.

You're right, Scott - the Aux slot is in line with Slot 3, so that 
probably explains the different layout (drop me a line by e-mail if you 
want internal and/or external pics of my SECAM and PAL //es).

I don't think it is a vanilla Softcard //e after all - the info on 
<http://user.chollian.net/~spix/hardware/hw_coprocessor.html> indicates 
it was the Premium Softcard //e which had the Z-80B chip, which my card 
definitely does. It has 8 x Oki M3764-20RS chips, too, which I think are 
64kilobit chips, so that makes 64KB RAM, once again, pointing to the 
Premium card.

So, my now my bet is that it is a Premium Softcard //e for the models 
with the Aux slot in line with Slot 3.

Thanks for the help on that - still after docs if anyone has them in 
electronic format :)

Regards

Sean

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