Re: Mistery card

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"Don Bruder" <dakidd@sonic.net> wrote in message
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> Pick a slot - any slot - except the AUX slot - and plug that puppy in.
> You'll quickly find out if it does anything useful in your rig. It's not
> like you're going to fry anything. Voltages and connections on the slots
> in the Apple II series were essentially constant across the line - a
> couple of very minor changes to signals that were rarely (if ever) used
> are the only variations, and to the best of my knowledge, none of them
> are in any way "dangerous" to a card. With the exception of the //c (no
> slots to plug into), a card made for one machine will *AT LEAST* survive
> being plugged into any of the others, and in most cases, it'll work
> exactly like it's supposed to.

You're correct about the electrical interface, but IIRC the few pieces of
software that use a ramcard (usually written for the enhanced //e, IIc,
IIc+, or IIgs) expect to find it in slot 5.

- Mike