Subject: Re: LC PDS Ethernet Cards
To: None <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre@stockholm.ptloma.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 02/07/2002 16:09:21
> >I note that Nubus and PDS slots are very similar, (just that the 
> >Nubus slot is missing the bit on the end). Is it possible to convert 
> >a Nubus card to work in a PDS slot? Perhaps having to jump a couple 
> >of pins at the end?
> 
> "I have a computer which requires a PDS card" doesn't quite tell us 
> enough. PDS tells how the bus "speaks" with the CPU, but it doesn't 
> actually tell us what kind of slot it is. My Mac SE (NOT 030) has a 
> PDS slot. So does the SE/30...however, you can't use the same card in 
> each. Then there are units in the 610/6100 class that have the PDS 
> slot which has a NuBus converter (a right angle thing).

IIsis have such a device too -- useful even without a NuBus card because
it's an easy way to add an FPU (one usually comes along on most of these
type of adaptors, including Apple's).

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