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From: tim@brspyr1.BRS.Com (Tim Northrup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Magic Sac
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Date: Tue, 24-Nov-87 11:16:10 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 24 11:16:10 1987
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In answer to some of Charles' questions about the Magic Sac:

in article <4340@mnetor.UUCP>, charles@mnetor.UUCP (Charles Benaiah) says:
|>The Magic Sac works with the 64K ROMs, and even Apple has announced that they
|>will no longer support the 64K ROMs anymore - most new commercial applications
|>that I have seen require the 128K ROMs.
| 
| Does this mean that the machine has to be opened, and the new ROMs inserted,
| or are they plugged into some external box?

The Sac is a plug-in expansion module which pops into the cartridge port on
the side of the ST.  The box contains slots for the 2 Apple ROMs and a few
other components (like a battery powered CLOCK which keeps the correct time
even when the system is powered off; very nice).

> Will this system (transaltor 1) also work for internal drives, or does this
> box connect to the MIDI, and to some external drive?

The Translator 1 is said to work with internal as well as external drives.
I don't think it connects to the MIDI port however, I think it just goes
between the floppy connector on the ST and the floppy drive:  the description
says something to the effect that internal drive accesses will make some
access to the external port FIRST, allowing the Translator 1 do "something".

Hope this helps.
					-- Tim.
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