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From: marc@Apple.COM (Mark Dawson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Built-In Video on Macintosh IIfx ?!?!
Keywords: Built-In Video, Macintosh IIfx
Message-ID: <41916@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 13 Jun 90 23:59:14 GMT
References: <1933@unido.UUCP>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
Lines: 47

In article <1933@unido.UUCP> mp@unido.UUCP (Michael Pickers) writes:
>
>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".
>
As best as I've been able to track down (someone from the ROM group may still
correct me), your guess about the IIci ROM is correct.  The fx ROM includes
alot of the IIci (you may even be able to put an fx ROM into a ci and have it
work).

FYI the "Toby Frame buffer card" was the last code name for the original
Mac II video card.

Mark


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