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From: lemke@radius.com (Steve Lemke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Radius Rocket & Macintosh IIsi
Message-ID: <1431@radius.com>
Date: 15 Apr 91 16:10:43 GMT
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granteri@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Grant Erickson) writes:

>Does anyone know if the newly debuted Radius Rocket will work with the
>Macintosh IIsi, I am sure it will work "hardware" wise, but I am curious to
>know whether it exceeds the power recommendations. Thanks...

It won't work in the IIsi for two reasons - the first is as you suspected:
the Rocket draws more power than is allowed in a Mac IIsi.  The second is
simple - because the hardware is "incompatible", the software won't even
recognize a Rocket in the IIsi.

--Steve

(No, I'm _not_ a "Rocket Scientist", but I work with a few of them...)
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