Re: Is this an alright setup of //e? Sound card questions...

["Sean Fahey" <a2fan@hotmail.com>]

Why not put the Workstation card in slot 1 and use it for Appletalk AND as
your printer port. Are you always booting off the server?

Put the Transwarp in 3, where it belongs.
Put the Mouse in 4 where it belongs and most apps EXPECT it.

"RichardK-PB" <atari@NOSPAMbtconnect.com> wrote in message
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> Got my Platinum IIe, got my other machines (one natural enhanced in poor
> shape (I know it's a natural, not upgraded, because it says 65C02 on the
> PCB ;) ) and another //e, plus a lot of cards, and joy of joys, my old
> AE 'black' PSU which I'd given away to a collector and hadn't been used
> - so the PSU-less Platinum got it.
>
> Into the Platinum, I have fitted:
>
> Slot 1 - Super Serial card
> Slot 2 empty
> Slot 3 - mouse card
> Slot 4 - Transwarp
> Slot 5 - Disk controller (for Unidisks, 19-pin D)
> Slot 6 - Workstation card
> Slot 7 - 4Mb Cirtech 'Flipper' card.
>
> Plus the black AE PSU
>
> Don't know what software to set up when it is netbooting to see how the
> 4Mb card is behaving, presumably AppleWorks. Gotta find MouseDesk, too ;)
>
> Also have three sound cards. One looks like crap, covered in 'potting
> compound' to hide the chips/layout, is branded 'Creative' on the back.
> One has a speaker on it and appears to claim to be a speech card of some
> sort - one side is plain PCB, the back is a tidy but very old-school
> single layer circuit (no passthroughs /at all/). The final card has 3 x
> AY sound chips and a 6522, no socket for speech or anything.
>
> Richard
>
>
> -- 
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