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In article <GERRY.93Jan6101905@onion.cmu.edu> gerry@cmu.edu (Gerry Roston) writes:
>I've been waiting for some one to post the correct answer, but alas,
>no one has yet, so I will.  Older G2000 systems had a card that served
>as disk controller, serial I/O, PIO and game port.  

True. 

>The new VLB system
>has the disk controller. SIO and PIO built into the motherboard.

But you can still buy non-VLB Gateways, right? Some of us (after
having been screwed by all propertiary components (my AT&T 6300 comes
to mind) on motherboard) have pledged NOT to buy anything that has
anything MORE than the motherboard on the notherboard. 

Is G2000 still selling the regular flavor ISA 486/33? I think they
do, and if so, does it use the old style multi-io card WITH a game
port?

>SInce the only other card in the system is the ATI, which certainly
>doesn't have a game port, the system doesn't have a game port.  

Even in systems with the built-in G2000 gameport, experiences of
many coworkers and friends who bought them seemed to vary. Some 
reported problems with some brands of joysticks (in high speed
machines like 486/33`s, or even 386/25's, and ended up getting a
card no matter what. I was lucky that the first joystick I plugged
in worked :-). It's a Gravis. It seemed that cheaper joysticks
would not work. 

> [Note: I do not have one, but I do know how to read and think.]
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Ooookay...

Spiros


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