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- From: dud@hardy.u.washington.edu (Daniel Aylward)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Falcon tinkering thoughts...
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.014258.1275@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 01:42:58 GMT
- References: <1992Aug18.155722.27123@u.washington.edu> <l931rbINN4b1@aludra.usc.edu>
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- baffoni@aludra.usc.edu (Juxtaposer) writes:
-
- >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.
-
- Yes, but the IDE drive is optional. I think it will be possible to
- connect the SCSI ribbon cable internally to the external SCSI port; i.e.,
- soldering the individual wires to the leads on the inside of the connector...
-
- >>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.
-
- Oh, I see you're right from my trusty Atari Advantage! :) Didn't notice
- that. But it doesn't do TT High (1280x960 monochrome) though...
-
- And I wonder if MultiTos will run ST high res programs in windows in its
- 640x480 65k color mode?
-