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- From: baffoni@aludra.usc.edu (Juxtaposer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Falcon tinkering thoughts...
- Date: 18 Aug 1992 16:27:39 -0700
- Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- References: <1992Aug18.155722.27123@u.washington.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug18.155722.27123@u.washington.edu> dud@hardy.u.washington.edu (Daniel Aylward) writes:
- >
- >Can anyone who's seen a Falcon tell me how easy it would be to pull out
- >the motherboard and put it in my Mega STe? I don't want to give up my
- >separate keyboard.
-
- I don't blame you - the separate keyboards make life a nicer place to
- be. :)
-
- > I have a Maxtor 7120S SCSI 120 meg drive in it now;
- >I'd probably have to rig up some funky way of connecting it internally to
- >the SCSI port... have to cut different holes in the back for the
- >different ports... How about the keyboard? Could the modular jack be
- >directly wired from the old keyboard wires?
-
- Remember, the Falcon has an internal IDE drive - that means they
- probably took out the internal SCSI connector. So you will have to get an
- external case, and a converter to go from 25->50 SCSI, and of course, the
- 25pin cable - you can get that at any Mac shop - in fact, just about any
- case/powersupply built for the mac should work perfectly. Also, if you plan
- to get a high-speed SCSI-2 drive in the future, I recommend you get the
- SCSI-2 rated cables - supposedly they give better performance (more s/n ??)
- but I have not seen this first hand.
-
-
- >
- >The other thing is if I were to get a Falcon (whether or not I put the
- >motherboard in the Mega STe case) would I be able to run mono-only
- >programs like Calamus 1.09n?
-
- Sure. It supports all the ST resolutions.
-
- >
- >Thanks,
- >
- >Dan Aylward
- >dud@u.washington.edu
- >
-
- -No prob.
-
- Mike
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