Mythical Slot C in the 6400 Alchemy Architecture & CSII Insanity

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Trash80toG4

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THX, will check out. Comparing these 1996 pages to the 1999 revision ATM.

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I've got a great start on buzzing the 6x00 riser. Have to recheck my findings, but it looks like nine signals only make it up to Slot A from the motherboard connector. One of which is perplexing, B18 in the PCI Spec is +5V. What gives. my mistake of something AppleFishy?
 

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Trash80toG4

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Closing in just a bit. First step will be setting one of my cable risers up as Slot_B which check board design for my TwinSlot Riser project.

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Second step will be playing musical signals with the three remaining Reserved Pins on the Logic Board connector. If that pans out and Slot_C is brought out of the crypt it'll be on to yet another blivet stuffing, a TriSlot Riser for the 6x00 drawer is looking more and more possible the more I stare at it. 🤪
 

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Tonight's Dirty Vodka Martini Powered utter simplification of the DELTA requirements for Slots B & the Mythical Slot C:

Somebody please give me some feedback here! MLA thread has had some serious input in the last week or so:

 

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