ELITE SERIES USER MANUAL | INSTALLATION |
both the drive and the controller. Be sure to make the connection BEFORE installing the controller card into the Apple motherboard.
If you are installing a second disk drive, you should connect: the ribbon cable from the second drive onto the next set. of pins down on the controller card marked “DRIVE 2”, taking the same precautions as above.
If you are connecting and third (and fourth) drive to an Elite Controller, they would be connected to the third and fourth set of pins from the top down. Once again, be sure to orient pin one correctly.
1 . 3 . Installing Your Controller Card
To install your controller card into the Apple, simply plug the card into any slot (except zero) in the back of the Apple II motherboard as follows:
1.With the power switch OFF, remove the top cover from the Apple II computer by lifting from the rear edge.
2.Choose a slot which would be correct for your application. Most packages which run under Apple DOS (or are protected from copying) do not care which slot you use for your drives; however the more advanced operating systems (like CP/M and Apple Pascal) require that your first controller card be located in slot six. This has made slot six the “standard” slot for a disk controller card, so you should consider placing
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