Apple IIe Card - Manual (Page 25)

CHAPTER 4-SETTING UP CARDS AND SLOTS
Before you begin using your Apple IIe Card in earnest, you must go to the
Option Panel and set up the cards and slots to reflect your own needs.
In this chapter you will
- decide how you want to arrange your cards and slots
- go to the Option Panel and arrange the cards according to your needs
- set any options required by the cards you've installed
Deciding How to Arrange the Cards in the Option Panel
In this section, you will plan which Option Panel cards to put in which
Option Panel slots. To work properly, Apple IIe programs must know where
various cards are installed. For example, in order to print, Apple IIe
programs must know where the Printer Card is. Furthermore, some programs may
require certain cards to be in certain slots.
Your Apple IIe programs may have special requirements; this section tells you
how to convert those special needs into a plan for arranging the cards.
You can go about creating your plan in one of two ways:
- Base your plan on how accessory cards are installed in your original Apple
IIe. If you have an Apple IIe computer with a number of accessory cards
installed, you should arrange the cards in the Option Panel similarly, as
described in the following section, "Basing the Plan on Your Original Apple
IIe."
- Base your plan on the typical arrangement used by a typical Apple IIe user.
If you don't have an Apple IIe computer or if you prefer to start from
scratch, skip ahead to the next section, called "Basing the Plan on a Typical
Apple IIe."
Basing the plan on Your original Apple IIe
If you already have an Apple IIe computer, you've probably taken care to
arrange the cards so that they work well with all your programs. In this
section, you will use paper and pencil to write down the way your Apple IIe
accessory cards are currently installed and then modify this arrangement to
work in your Macintosh LC.
In this section, you only write down your plans. You'll implement the plans
later in this chapter.
1. Write down the way the accessory cards are arranged in your Apple IIe.
For example, one Apple IIe owner may have written the following:
The third slot in your Apple IIe computer may not have an accessory card
installed in it; but even so, it serves as the monitor accessory card.
2. If you have a Super Serial Card connected to a printer, scratch it out
and write "Printer Card" instead.