Subject: Whats that connector on the TWGS board (on top)??
From: CBS <jsmith66@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, Dec 10, 1998 12Ç39@
Message-id: <3670236D.38D441B5@hotmail.com>

Most people tell me it is a TEST connector, used at the factory to test
the boards.

I find this *highly* unlikely.  Companies don't put test *connectors* on
electronics.  The connectors are too expensive.

EVERY test "connector" on every Apple II board that I've ever seen was a
line of a few solder spots on the board.  Instead of PLUGGING into the
board, a machine or human could *PRESS* a test device to the "connector"
and test the board.

Maybe if::          Tony Diaz,

or one of his friends are reading this, they could ask him about it and
share the answer with us.

I *seem* to remember there was a cable to connect the TWGS directly to a
memory card??  (I thought I read something about the connector in a
NIBBLE).  Maybe it was a processor addon I read about.  I cannot
remember, and I havent been able to find the Nibble Article since then
(I first read it way before I got my GS)


Hmmm.  I should have followed the traces on the board to the Connector
the other day, when I drew my %100 accurate scale drawing of my TWGS.


Here is the best idea I've seen so far (I just found it searching
DejaNews)

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ab616@chebucto.ns.ca (Tony Cianfaglione) wrote:

>   What is the pin connector at the top of the TransWarp GS card next
to
>the light.  It looks like a 34 pin connector for a HD or something.

It's a passthrough for the microprocessor, I think.  It was intended
so that Applied Engineering (or someone else, perhaps) could construct
addon modules of some sort for the TWGS.  Nobody ever used it for
anything.

Eric Shepherd
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