>At 10:02 +0800 on 16/08/01, Andrew W. Hill wrote:
>
>>I think it was mostly for accelerators and video cards.
>
>...and I don't know of a single accelerator that used 'em. All the
>accelerators I know of for the LC-class Macs were compatible with all of
>'em, so they couldn't have used the extra pins.
>
>I haven't seen a video card that did either, but info on LC video cards is
>a bit sparse.
>
>What about those MediaVision PAS-16 sound cards for the LC slot? National
>Instruments boards for the LC slot? It's the obscure stuff that might have
>needed it..
Sorry, should have specified that I was guessing.
The extra pins widen the expansion bus to 32bits. I've never
actually seen an "LCIII" card, even though I've seen some LC cards on
boards that had solder points for an LCIII connector.
Probably went the same way as the Commodore128 and the //gs
Peace
Aqua
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