Adding expansion slots to old Compaq Portable (HELP!)

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From: 10003012
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1989 11:42

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To all of you engineering types...from a future engineer...

      I have an old Compaq Portable computer that is crammed
with add-in cards!  I need to add more.  I am thinking maybe
I can just buy ribbon cable and run it to an external board
that has more expansion slots.

      I know that I will need to add a new power supply
somewhere.  Questions:

		- Can I actually simply wire more expansion
		  slots to the original set?
		- If so, how and where do I connect the second
		  power supply (i.e. how do I wire it to the
		  extended portion of the I/O channel)

       Any help I can get is welcome!  Please E-mail any responses
as I am a student and have little time to check hundreds of messages
on this news net.  Thanks alot!

					- Kevin Kahl :-)
					  dstr012@ucscg.UCSC.EDU

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Subject: Adding expansion slots to old Compaq Portable (HELP!)
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