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Product Support Bulletin

Subject: Equity and Apex Series Compatibility with the System OmniBridge

Controller and BridgeFiler External Floppy Drives

Date:

04/11/90

Page:

1 of 3

PSB No:

S-0088B

Originator:

KAS 

The purpose of this bulletin is to provide the results of compatibility testing

conducted by the Computer Product Support Center with the Sysgen
OmniBridge controller and Bridge - Filer external floppy disk drives.

Comments

Equity I

The Equity I was found compatible with the OmniBridge

controller. It was able to support one or two external
disk drives (daisychained) together. The external drives
could be used as high density (1.2M and 1.44M) or
normal (360K and 720K) disk drives.

Equity II

Equity III

Equity I +

Equity le

The Equity II was found to be totally incompatible with
the OmniBridge controller.

The Equity III was found compatible with the OmniBridge
controller. It was able to support one or two external
disk drives (daisychained) together. The external drives
could be used as high density (1.2M and 1.44M) or

normal (360K and 720K) disk drives.

The Equity I + was found compatible with the

OmniBridge controller.

It was able to support one or

two external disk drives (daisychained) together. The

external drives could be used as high density (1.2M and

1.44M) or normal (360K and 720K) disk drives.

The Equity le was found compatible with the OmniBridge

controller. It was able to support only one external

floppy drive, unlike the other models tested. The drive

could be used as a high density (1.2Mb and 1.44Mb) or
normal (360K and 720K) disk drive.

Summary of Contents for Apex 200

Page 1: ... disk drives Equity II Equity III Equity I Equity le The Equity II was found to be totally incompatible with the OmniBridge controller The Equity III was found compatible with the OmniBridge controller It was able to support one or two external disk drives daisychained together The external drives could be used as high density 1 2M and 1 44M or normal 360K and 720K disk drives The Equity I was fou...

Page 2: ...The Equity 386SX was found compatible with the OmniBridge controller It was able to support one or two external disk drives daisychained together The external drives could be used as high density 1 2M and 144M or normal 360K and 720K disk drives Equity 386 20 The Equity 386 20 was found compatible with the OmniBridge controller It was able to support one or two external disk drives daisychained to...

Page 3: ...he external drives could be used as high density 1 2M and 1 44M or normal 360K and 720K disk drives NOTE The recommended switch settings for the OmniBridge controller are as follows 1 1 DOWN 2 1 DOWN 1 2 DOWN 2 2 DOWN 1 3 DOWN 2 3 UP 1 4 DOWN 2 4 UP These settings select NO ADDRESS for the OmniBridge BIOS and allow it to coexist with the internal FDC of the computer in which it is being installed ...

Page 4: ...0 computer Apex printer and Apex monitors hardware Customers can obtain support by calling our Product Support Department at 213 539 9955 or by writing to Epson America Inc Product Support Department 23610 Telo Ave Torrance Ca 90505 Where can I obtain warranty repair service for my Epson Apex products Epson America Inc has a network of Authorized Epson Customer Care Centers located throughout the ...

Page 5: ...0 uses a 5 25 half height 20 MB Seagate ST 225 MFM hard disk with an average disk access time of 65ms The Apex 200 40 uses a 5 25 half height 40 MB CDC 94205 51 MFM hard disk with an average disk access time of 28ms Q Can a higher capacity hard disk drive be installed A Yes if you install a new hard disk drive refer to the Drive Type Table in Appendix F of the Users Guide to match the drive type t...

Page 6: ...the 360KB double density diskettes Q Is it possible to disable the APEX 200 floppy disk controller A Yes by changing jumper 2 on the SPF2 board from the A to the B position Q Can I use other types of floppy disk drives with the APEX 200 A 5 25 360KB half height floppy disk drives are compatible with the APEX 200 personal computer The Epson 3 5 half height 720KB floppy drive Epson Model code A112A ...

Page 7: ...h Epson Accessories Inc at 1 800 873 7766 or at your local software store Q Is the APEX 200 compatible with MS OS 2 A Since OS 2 is much more hardware specific than MS DOS the Epson version of MS OS 2 is required available from Epson dealers A minimum of 2MB of RAM memory is required to run MS OS 2 Q Will IBM compiled BASIC programs run on the APEX 200 Most BASIC programs written for the IBM PC XT...

Page 8: ...cial Options under Video in the SETUP program A standard television set cannot be used with the APEX 200 although there are some new TV sets being manufactured which can also be used as computer monitors with the proper interface card Check with a computer dealer for more information Q How many option cards can be installed in the APEX 200 A The APEX 200 has six l O expansion slots 3 8 bit and 3 1...

Page 9: ...ick connector must match the connector type on the board it is being used with An IBM PC compatible joystick with a 15 pin IBM compatible game port connector must be used with the Epson APEX 200 We recommend using the Kraft Premium or Kraft KC3 joystick as we have tested them with the APEX 200 You do not need to purchase a game card as it is included with the APEX 200 video adapter card Q HOW do y...

Page 10: ...or high speed backup A The APEX 200 has been tested with the following file backup units Backup Diskit 60MB Model TEX 60 Idea Associates Everex Stream 20MB Model 4 02 Everex Systems Inc Mountain Series 4000 Filesafe Mountain Computer Inc Tecmar QT 60e Tecmar Inc Tallgrass TG 4060 Tallgrass Technologies Corp Q Are there any extension cables available for the APEX 200 enhanced keyboard A Epson does ...

Page 11: ...ible with the APEX 200 A The following boards have been tested and approved 3278 79 Emulation Adapter 5250 Adapter IRMA 2 IBM IBM DCA Inc Q Can it be used as a Local Area Network Server or Workstation A The APEX 200 has been tested in the network environment using 3COM IBM Token Ring and IBM PC Network adapters with Novell Netware It can be used both as a server and a workstation When installing t...

Page 12: ...les The appropriate executable can then be run either from diskette or hard drive There will be some exceptions to the above rule In attempting to benchmark or troubleshoot any add on that requires a device driver CD ROM local area network etc obviously the necessary device driver s must be loaded Also some programs will require a minimum number of FILES or BUFFERS to be defined in the CONFIG SYS ...

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