Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!unido!mp
From: mp@unido.UUCP (Michael Pickers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Built-In Video on Macintosh IIfx ?!?!
Keywords: Built-In Video, Macintosh IIfx
Message-ID: <1933@unido.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jun 90 14:54:44 GMT
Reply-To: mp@unido.UUCP (Michael Pickers)
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Organization: The German Eunet Backbone, University of Dortmund
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Hello,

   I've just done an astonishing experiment on my brand new Macintosh IIfx.
I compiled an ran a tiny program that looks at every NU-bus slot and
prints all available information about installed cards (Code from
Amanda Walker, posted in comp.sys.mac.programmer last August as a demo
for the slot manager).  The output was:

Slot 0:
  Macintosh II Built-In Video
  Vendor: Apple Computer, Inc
  Revision: Macintosh II Family 1.0
  Part Number: 342-0733/342-0734/342-0735/342-0736
  Revision Date: 26-Jan-90
Slot 9:
  Toby frame buffer card
  Vendor: Apple Computer
  Revision: Beta-7.0
  Part Number: TFB-1

Now, has anyone (especially from Apple) a good explanation for the output
for slot 0 ? I repeat, this is a Macintosh IIfx and *not* a IIci !!!

My own explanations range form "the ROM of the IIci and the IIfx are
almost identical" to "there really is part of the Built-In Video hardware,
but no connector".


          Michael Pickers
          Computer Science Department, University of Dortmund
          IRB - Informatik Rechner Betriebsgruppe
          4600 Dortmund 50, P.O. Box 500500, W.-Germany
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