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Software designed for earlier models of the Apple II expects to find devices connected to slots inside the computer. For this reason, each port on the Apple IIGS is designed to impersonate a slot containing a card. (See Table A-1.) | ||||
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 | About the disk drive port: When 3.5-inch drives are connected to the disk drive port, they appear to be connected to a card in slot 5. When 5.25-inch drives are connected to the disk drive port, they appear to be connected to a card in slot 6. When the disk drive port impersonates a card in slot 5, it's described as a "smart port." (See Figure A-9 on the next page.) | ||
Because each port impersonates a slot, you can't have both the port and the corresponding slot active at the same time. You activate one or the other by using the Slots command. In Figure A-9 on the next page, the printer port is active, but the modem port is not. The user has chosen to activate the card in slot 2 instead of the modem port. Notice that when a slot is activated, the words Your Card replace the words describing the port. | ||
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