30 May
1997
30 May
'97
10:35 p.m.
On Tue, 27 May 1997, Eric Fischer wrote:
But not required to be in slot 1. Any card could be in any slot. It
makes no difference to the computer. Software applications are a
different story.
2: has a
Grappler + Parallel Printer INterface
That's strange... printers were traditionally in slot 1. > 7: (This one stumps me) Its a pretty long board
and attaches by way of a
> wire to a panel on the back that says "VIDEX" The panel has a toggle
> switch and two RCA ports that say "M" and "A" Is this another
Video
> board?
I would suggest taking this card out as it hardly seems like it belongs
in the system and may be the cause of the malfunction. The only reason I
can think that this card is in slot 7 is because slot 7 had a special
connection to a video signal (something like that, I forget the
specifics) and maybe this was an enhanced graphics card of some sort.
But slot 7 is also the first slot the ROM looks in for a bootable device,
and this card may be preventing the system from finding the disk
controller in slot 6 and booting off the disk drive.
Sam
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