Maxed out Apple II computers
Sean Fahey
For giggles and grins, describe your tricked out, best system(s). Kinda like
a virtual car show for Apple II computers.
My favorite Apple IIe is a platinum, with an 8MHz ZipChip and NoSlot clock
installed, AppleCD, 80SC and full completement of drives.
Aux: Sequential Systems Meg80z
Slot 1: Apple Workstation Card
Slot 2: Apple Super Serial Card with Turbo ABS installed
Slot 3: empty
Slot 4: Apple Slinky 1MB card
Slot 5: Apple 3.5 Superdrive Controller
Slot 6: Apple 5.25 Controller
Slot 7: Apple HS SCSI Controller
My main GS is a ROM 3, 5.25MB
Slot 1: SecondSight
Slot 2: LANceGS
Slot 3: ZipGS 10/64
Slot 4: Audio Animator
Slot 5: Apple 3.5 Superdrive Controller
Slot 6: CFFA
Slot 7: Apple HS SCSI Controller
RAM Slot: Sequential Systems 4MB
I also have "theme" machines... like Apple IIe's and GS with nothing but
topline Applied Engineering stuff installed, etc.
What's in your case?
pilgrimer
AE power Supply
Slot 1 CMS SCSI (on a 20mb CMS drive , with a CMS SCSI cable even!)
Slot 2 SSC for the quick ADT trasnfer as needed
Slot 3 Transwarp II
Slot 4 Mouse Card
Slot 5 Liron 3.5 floppy controller
Slot 6 5.25 controller
Slot 7 Workstation Card -hooked to the Network from Heck of course!
Memory is a AE 1mb card (the one witht he notch in it, I forget the name and
I ain't by the machine, complete with the 512k daughter dcard and the other
RGB daughter card, This machine is hooked via a Dr Bott ADB A/B swithc to
the same monitor I use on my tricked out Apple IIgs
Also hooked to it is a extra Apple 10 key pad. I had it so hey, why not?
other cards are available as needed and, I also have a Laser 128 2 for 1
slot gizmo I can plug in and use to expand it.
-Bart
Keeper of the Network from Heck
Mark Percival
>Ooops.
>
>For giggles and grins, describe your tricked out, best system(s). Kinda like
>a virtual car show for Apple II computers.
My main platinum IIe
Aux: 1 MB RawWorks
Slot 1: Apple Workstation Card
Slot 2: Mouse card
Slot 3: empty
Slot 4: Mockingboard A
Slot 5: Apple 3.5 Superdrive Controller
Slot 6: Apple 5.25 Controller
Slot 7: 512 MB Focus hard drive
My main GS is a ROM 3, 5.25MB
Slot 1: LANceGS
Slot 2: empty
Slot 3: TWGS 10/32
Slot 4: Apple HS SCSI for a CDROM drive.
Slot 5: empty
Slot 6: Apple 3.5 Superdrive Controller
Slot 7: 1GB Focus hard drive
RAM Slot: SiruisRAM 4MB
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Greg Andrzejewski
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> Ooops.
>
> For giggles and grins, describe your tricked out, best system(s). Kinda
like
> a virtual car show for Apple II computers.
My main IIgs, ROM 1 Woz, 4 MB
Slot 1: Apple HS SCSI Controller
Slot 2: empty
Slot 3: empty
Slot 4: TWGS (8k cache for now....)
Slot 5: empty
Slot 6: Sonic Blaster
Slot 7: Grappler
RAM: 4 MB RAM-4-GS
My Platinum IIe, 8 Mhz Zip Chip, PC power supply with molex connector from
dead AE power supply
Aux: 2 MB AE RamWorks
Slot 1: Empty
Slot 2: SSC
Slot 3: empty
Slot 4: AE Vulcan controller, 20 meg drive
Slot 5: Vtech UDC
Slot 6: Apple 5.25" controller
Slot 7: Empty
-Greg
Greg Andrzejewski
"Greg Andrzejewski" <pressyo...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "Sean Fahey" <a2...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:fNGle.2803$3D6....@newssvr12.news.prodigy.com...
> > Ooops.
> >
> > For giggles and grins, describe your tricked out, best system(s). Kinda
> like
> > a virtual car show for Apple II computers.
>
> My main IIgs, ROM 1 Woz, 4 MB
> Slot 1: Apple HS SCSI Controller
> Slot 2: empty
> Slot 3: empty
> Slot 4: TWGS (8k cache for now....)
> Slot 5: empty
> Slot 6: Sonic Blaster
> Slot 7: Grappler
> RAM: 4 MB RAM-4-GS
Whoops, I don't have Bill's card. I think it's a RAMPak 4 GS.
-Greg
Craig Bower
> like
> a virtual car show for Apple II computers.
Virtual Apple show, what a awesome idea for a thread! - Kudos!
Heh, http://www.turbo-2.com/apple/ << shameless plug.
As for my most tricked out / favorite apples?
My Platinum //e
http://www.turbo-2.com/apple/#pla
Slot 1: Empty
Slot 2: Apple super serial card
Slot 3: Empty
Slot 4: Apple mouse interface card
Slot 5: Apple 3.5 Superdrive Controller
Slot 6: Apple 5.25" disk controller card
Slot 7: CFFA - 128MB Sandisk card
Auxillary Slot: Apple 64k/80 Col card.
My IIgs (non-Woz)
http://www.turbo-2.com/apple/#nwt (pics out of date)
Slot 1: Empty
Slot 2: Apple super serial card
Slot 3: Empty
Slot 4: Empty
Slot 5: Empty
Slot 6: Empty
Slot 7: CFFA - 128MB Sandisk card
Memory expansion Slot: RAM-4-GS
My Graphics Tablet //e
http://www.turbo-2.com/apple/#tab (pics out of date)
Slot 1: Empty
Slot 2: Apple super serial card
Slot 3: Empty
Slot 4: Empty
Slot 5: Empty
Slot 6: Apple 5.25" disk controller card
Slot 7: Apple graphics tablet card
Auxillary Slot: Apple 64k/80 Col card.
And yes, I am definitely jealous of you HS SCSI card owners! :)
Later,
Craig
Damon Wicklund
<SNIP>
Here's the specs for my Apples:
Apple IIgs (ROM 01)
PSU: Buggie 150W PSU (thanks Steve Buggie)
Slot 1: RAMFast SCSI (1 CD-ROM, 1 340 MB HD)
Slot 2: SuperSonic Sound Card (IW II via modem port)
Slot 3: Transwarp GS (10 MHz/8K cache/1.5w ROM)
Slot 4: Empty (ADB Mouse)
Slot 5: Superdrive Controller (2 Superdrives)
Slot 6: Empty (2 5.25" Drives via Smartport)
Slot 7: LANceGS
Memory Exp: 6MB GS-RAM PLUS
Apple IIe
Aux: Apple IIe Extended 80 Col/RGB
Slot 1: Grappler Plus (Epson Action Printer 3250)
Slot 2: Empty
Slot 3: Empty
Slot 4: Mouse Interface (M0100 Mouse)
Slot 5: Empty
Slot 6: 5.25" Controller (DuoDisk)
Slot 7: Unidisk 3.5" Controller (1 Unidisk 3.5" Drive)
No Slot Clock (thanks Ralph Glatt)
Enhancement Kit
--
Damon Wicklund
Bill Garber
pressyo...@yahoo.com wrote on 5/27/05 6:39 PM:
> Whoops, I don't have Bill's card. I think it's a RAMPak 4 GS.
And why don't you? :o)
Bill Garber
Email - Will...@comcast.net
Poster
Slot 1...empty
Slot 2...LanceGS
Slot 3...TWGS 32k cache
Slot 4...empty
Slot 5...Turbo IDE card w/ 200 Mb drive (Thanks Bill!)
Slot 6...empty
Slot 7...Doctor Design stereo card
RAM: 6 Mb Sirius (I think). It's 6 Mb something.
It's totally networkable with a long CAT 5 cable to my local LAN. I'm
nowhere close to the NFH, but I'd like to think I'm getting there. :)
~Poster
Simon Williams
1 Empty
2 Mountain Computer Music System
3 " " " "
4 Decillionix DX-1 sampler card
5 alphaSyntauri keyboard controller w/ 61 key keyboard
6 Disk ][ controller
7 CFFA card with 32 MB CF*
The DX-1, Mountain cards and audio ouputs from the B+H
multimedia "backpack" are run through a Fostex mixer/
recorder and then out to various LARGE amplifiers.
*At this point the CFFA is just there for safekeeping since
I haven't got it to work properly with the ][+ yet... I'm
hoping the new ROM version will be more compatible.
-s
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juli...@hotmail.com
have, but . . .
Apple //c+
1 Meg memory expansion card
Apple color composite monitor
Sequential Systems 20 Meg hard drive
mouse and joystick
Imagewriter // printer
The only thing I have yet to do is install GEOS on the hard drive.
Ralph Glatt
juli...@hotmail.com
Damon Wicklund wrote:
> Sean Fahey wrote:
> <SNIP>
>
> Apple IIe
> Aux: Apple IIe Extended 80 Col/RGB
> Slot 1: Grappler Plus (Epson Action Printer 3250)
> Slot 2: Empty
> Slot 3: Empty
> Slot 4: Mouse Interface (M0100 Mouse)
> Slot 5: Empty
> Slot 6: 5.25" Controller (DuoDisk)
> Slot 7: Unidisk 3.5" Controller (1 Unidisk 3.5" Drive)
> No Slot Clock (thanks Ralph Glatt)
Glad to see it finally getting some use! ;-) Remember, the only reason
you have it is because I can't get it to fit in my //c+ and the memory
card at the same time!
> Enhancement Kit
Ralph
Mitchell Spector
>Ooops.
>
>For giggles and grins, describe your tricked out, best system(s). Kinda like
>a virtual car show for Apple II computers.
Main Apple IIGS (ROM 3), "Woz" cover, 8 MB RAM
-----
Slot 1: Second Sight
Slot 2: AE Audio Animator
Slot 3: ZipGS 15/64
Slot 4: Quickie-scanner interface
Slot 5: Apple Video Overlay Card
Slot 6: Apple II 3.5 Disk Controller Card (SuperDrive)
Slot 7: RamFast SCSI with 1 MB
RAM Slot: 7 MB Sequential RAM GS Plus
Internal hardisk: Econ Pegasus with 240 MB SCSI HD
As a nice touch, I rigged it so when the internal hardisk is in
use, the IIgs's front power LED blinks from green to amber.
Also worth mention: Apple CD-300e Plus, 2 GB tape-drive,
IOmega Zip-100 drive, Altec Lansing ACS-33 speakers
with sub-woofer, System Saver IIgs and Mach III joystick.
Backup Apple IIGS (ROM 3), 5 MB RAM
-----
Slot 1: AE PC-Transporter with 8087 Math-co
Slot 2: Econ SoundMeister
Slot 3: ZipGS 9/32
Slot 4: ComputerEyes GS
Slot 5: --
Slot 6: Apple II 3.5 Disk Controller Card (SuperDrive)
Slot 7: RamFAST SCSI with 256K
RAM Slot: 4 MB Sequential RAM GS
Main Apple IIe (Enhanced)
-----
Slot 1: Apple II Memory Expansion Card with 1 MB
Slot 2: Apple Super Serial Card
Slot 3: Titan 3.5 MHz accelerator
Slot 4: Apple II Mouse Interface
Slot 5: AE Phasor sound card
Slot 6: Apple 5.25 controller
Slot 7: AE TimeMaster II H.O. clock card
Aux slot: 512K Microcomm Mega RAM 80
Microcomm heavy-duty powersupply
Reminds me, I've been planning to swap the SSC and replace it with either
an Apple HS or RamFAST-C (I have a couple sitting around and HD's).
Going back to the top, my main IIgs is absolutely maxed out. The only
thing it needs is a larger hardisk (I have several, but they're too noisy)
and something more interesting to replace the Quickie. Perhaps a
AST Vision Plus Enhanced or LANceGS. Other from that, that's really
about as far as you can upgrade the GS CPU box with existing add-ons.
Mitchell Spector
Mitchell Spector
>Slot 7...Doctor Design stereo card
Is the Doctor Design actually a stereo output card? It seems it came
out late in the IIgs's life and looks more like either an audio digitizer or
some type of mono-amplifier for headphones.
Ever fully test it with, say, Music Construction Set GS? That was
was so channel separated MDIdeas included a demo version on disk
with each of their stereo cards. :)
Mitchell Spector
PZ
now.
//e:
Aux: AE Ramworks III w/1.5mb installed + RGB expansion
Slot 1: AE Serial Pro (Clock/Serial Card Combo) - Printer
Slot 2: Apple SSC w/ Turbo ASB installed - Modem
Slot 3: EPROM Programmer (will do up to 27512's / 64Kbyte)
Slot 4: Apple Mouse Card w/mouse
Slot 5: Apple Super Drive controller w/2 Superdrives
Slot 6: Disk II controller w/2 Drives
Slot 7: Ramfast Rev C w/256k
CPU: Bits and Pieces Rocket Chip 10mhz
Peripherals: GS RGB Monitor, Kensington System Saver
Reserve: Laser UDC, Pro Grappler, NoSlotClock, Zip Chip 8mhz, Transwarp
I, Focus Drive, Workstation Card (swaps w/ EPROM Programmer), OKS
Multicache Card w/1MB
Wishlist: Transwarp II so I can run 8mhz w/DMA, Mockingboard (but no
place to put it)
----
GS ROM 03:
Aux: CV Tech 8mb CV Ram
Slot 1: CFFA Card
Slot 2: Lance GS
Slot 3: Transwarp GS 13.5mhz 32k, v1.8ROM
Slot 4: Fingerprint GSI
Slot 5: Apple Superdrive Controller w/1 Internal Superdrive
Slot 6: Applied Visions Future Sound
Slot 7: Ramfast Rev D. w/1mb
Powersupply: Gutted vulcan with 1GB SCSI drive and Apple Superdrive
Mech. installed. Milled case autographed personally by Woz.
Reserve: Quickie Hand scanner (and T-shirt), extra TWGS's and Zip's,
extra Vulcan/Innerdrives, Soundmeister, Ramfast Rev D, Apple HS SCSI
Card.
Wishlist: Something better than the Second Sight. Updated ROMs to
include 6.01 tools at startup, a 20mhz accelerator for the masses
preferrably with integrated VGA.
---
Mitchell: You must have one of the Zips that were modified in-house by
ZipTech. I havn't been able to get one to run reliably above
11.5-12mhz w/64k cache.
Sean: Ur one one of the lucky ones. There were only 20 Turbo ASB's
produced and they wern't all sold.
Ralph: Very nice! I had a Applied Innovations C-Drive once, but it
died an ugly death. Better to have a decked out //c+ anyhow.
Simon: Kudos, very unique.
- Paul
Ed Eastman
You have a hard drive attached to your IIc+??
Thankx,
Ed
juli...@hotmail.com
Well, I don't have it set up at the moment, but yes, I have a
Sequential Systems hard drive that was made to work with either a //c
or //c+. I managed to download GEOS off the net with the //c, now I
just have to install it on the hard drive, then hook the hard drive up
to the //c+. Plugs into the back, same as any external drive. Best of
all, the //c+ will boot up off of the hard drive, once it's installed.
I'm not absolutely sure GEOS comes with a GUI interface, but I sure
hope so. I plan on proving to my brother that I can get my 8-bit
computer to run pretty much like his 32 bit machines. Granted, the
sound and graphics won't be the same, but otherwise it should be able
to do anything he can get his 32 bit machine to do.
Ralph Glatt
BluPhoenyx
>
> Well, I don't have it set up at the moment, but yes, I have a
> Sequential Systems hard drive that was made to work with either a //c
> or //c+. I managed to download GEOS off the net with the //c, now I
> just have to install it on the hard drive, then hook the hard drive up
> to the //c+. Plugs into the back, same as any external drive. Best of
> all, the //c+ will boot up off of the hard drive, once it's installed.
> I'm not absolutely sure GEOS comes with a GUI interface, but I sure
> hope so. I plan on proving to my brother that I can get my 8-bit
> computer to run pretty much like his 32 bit machines. Granted, the
> sound and graphics won't be the same, but otherwise it should be able
> to do anything he can get his 32 bit machine to do.
Yes, GEOS has a GUI in fact, that was it's only UI. That was supposed to
be it's advantage. Sadly, it came out too late and had little options
for upgrades. Also, no developer support, such as a promised BASIC,
appeared.
Cheers,
Mike T.
Scott Alfter
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Sean Fahey <a2...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>For giggles and grins, describe your tricked out, best system(s). Kinda like
>a virtual car show for Apple II computers.
My "stealth GS" is equipped with 4.25 MB RAM (used a Dremel to cut the
corner off a Sequential RAM-GS to get it to fit inside a IIe case), an Apple
DMA SCSI card, a ZipGS running at 8 MHz with 64K cache (have had trouble
getting it to reliably run faster than that), and a SoundMeister. For local
storage, it has a 4.3-GB Seagate Barracuda (connected through an
80-to-50-pin adapter) and 250-MB tape drive in a generic SCSI case and a
Panasonic 4x CD-ROM drive in a Sun case. The monitor is an NEC MultiSync
3D, and the computer's tied into my LAN through a Cayman GatorBox CS, which
lets it access files on my Ethernet-connected Macs and Linux server. At
some point, I might move the hard drive back into the computer; it's been in
there before when I had it running with the guts of a 250W PS/2 power supply
running open-frame, and the eMachines-style power supply (with a power
switch hacked in) that's inside now offers even more space for an internal
hard drive.
I've had some more interesting goodies than that in the past, though.
Before I upgraded my IIe to a IIGS (bought a kit from Shreve Systems back in
'92 or '93 to do that), I had both a 10-MHz RocketChip and a RamWorks 65816
add-on available to me. The '816 was fun to play around with, but the
RocketChip made programs like AppleWorks and PublishIt! more usable. With a
mouse card added to the rig, I was cranking out newsletters for the local
Apple user group that people would've thought could only have been done on a
Mac (we had both Apple II & Mac users, with the latter becoming more
numerous).
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(IIGS( http://alfter.us/ Top-posting!
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Martin Doherty
I don't think he missed it at all, but was expressing his utter surprise
and astonishment.
John L
ROM 3 IIgs w/1.125MB Base RAM & "Woz" cover
Slot 1: empty
Slot 2: empty
Slot 3: TransWarpGS 7MHz/8k cache (stock)
Slot 4: Microsoft Z-80 Softcard
Slot 5: empty
Slot 6: CMS SCSI Card (w/1990 ROM)
Slot 7: 340MB Focus IDE Hard Drive
RAMS: Sirius RAMGS w/8MB RAM
No problems with this setup even with the extra RAM (no conflicts).
The only complaint I have is with the CMS SCSI card - it won't work
reliably with Zip drives.
I also have an Apple CD300e which I haven't got round to hooking-up.
PZ
Sequential, and before that Chinook, both had Smartport interfaced hard
drives for the IIc. Applied Ingenuity actually made an internal drive
that replaced the floppy mechanism, but only a handful got out. The
Sequential and Chinook units functioned well, but were limited by the
speed of the Smartport. File transfer rates are only slightly better
than what you'd get off of a 3.5" floppy drive unfortunately. I'm not
sure if Sequential bought Chinook's intellectual property, or if they
did their stuff from scratch. I'm guessing that there was some
relation there.
What would be really bitchin' would be to hardwire a CFFA into a IIc+.
I'm not sure about the Mem Expansion slot pinouts, but this hack would
take the cake. Or one could just be lazy and use a Laser 128ex.
Better yet, a 128ex/2 if a unit can be found.
- Paul
Ed Eastman
> Well, I don't have it set up at the moment, but yes, I have a
> Sequential Systems hard drive that was made to work with either a //c
> or //c+.
Color me green. I always knew I missed out on the best toys, but I
thought I had a pretty good collection. I guess I am just a little envious.
Thankx,
Ed
juli...@hotmail.com
Yeah, those drives are pretty hard to come by, anymore. I managed to
pick it up several years ago, back when I was still able to use my
Apple // clone to get on the internet. I have a friend from this
newsgroup that is trying to recreate the drive, so more people can have
them, if they want them.
Ralph Glatt
Ed Eastman
> Sequential, and before that Chinook, both had Smartport interfaced hard
> drives for the IIc. Applied Ingenuity actually made an internal drive
> that replaced the floppy mechanism, but only a handful got out. The
> Sequential and Chinook units functioned well, but were limited by the
> speed of the Smartport.
> What would be really bitchin' would be to hardwire a CFFA into a IIc+.
Paul:
I was a ware of only the Chinook drive, and I've certainly never seen
one except in old pictures. I did not know there were three available
at one time or another.
Maybe we can do that at kfest, if you have a spare CFFA and an eprom in
your IIc+ along with access to a burner.
Hmmm...
Wasn't someone working on such a hack already?
Thinking aloud:
- What are in the slots of a IIc+?
- Anyone got a schematic or block diagram of the slotmaker chip. (I am
assuming it has a slot maker chip.)
- I'd want to place the CFFA rom in the c600 region so the IIc+ would
automatically downshift...
- I'd want a switch to allow use of the smartport 5.25 but I could live
without it.
- Anyone got a disassembly of the smartport routines in ROM? What chip
is the Cx00 region in?
Thankx,
Ed
juli...@hotmail.com
Hang in there. Like I said in another post, a friend of mine is working
on a way to make more drives like the one I have. It's just a matter of
time.
The CFFA drive would be a good idea, too, though that would take quite
a bit of hacking to achieve. I remember talking to Tony Diaz about
using the memory expansion port as a hard drive, and he said that it
was possible to make a card with more than 1 meg of memory, but you'd
have to put in some kind of battery to help keep the software in the
memory. I also seem to remember that such a card would require more
power, as well.
Ralph Glatt
Sean Fahey
also consider adding a socket for a NoSlot Clock. I'd buy it (probably
several).
Sean Fahey
news:TmLle.28$JW....@news.uswest.net...
> Ok Sean, I see your Platinum IIe and raise you mine (also a platinum):
Eh, your TWII is something that gives me a pang of envy - but my AE "themed"
platinum IIe is pretty nifty, IMHO - eventually to be loaded with nearly 9
megs of RAM. This machine doesn't have Apple 5.25 drives installed - I yank
the PCT when I (so rarely) need them.
Aux: RAMWORKS III 3MB (1MB on board/2MB daughterboard), ColorLink RGB
daughterboard installed (finally!).
Slot 1: ParallelPro
Slot 2: SerialPro
Slot 3: Transwarp
Slot 4: Phasor
Slot 5: RAMFactor 1MB (soon to be upgraded to 5MB!)
Slot 6: PC Transporter, 8087, IIe install kit, dual drives and doubles as an
Apple 3.5 drive controller (just got this, found one NIB)
Slot 7: Vulcan 40MB (just got this, found one NIB)
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Poster
turn the internal speaker on or off and a big hole (note: technical
term) for connecting up headphones and/or speakers. Right now, I have
it only outputting mono sound because I have only a mono connector.
It's not a digitizer at all.
~Poster
juli...@hotmail.com
>From experience, I can tell you that the NSC goes on the motherboard,
in a spot that makes it near impossible to add the memory card. (That's
why I sold my NSC chip to someone else. ;-)
There are ways to use the mouse interrupts in a //c to make a software
clock of sorts, but it means having to keep your computer on all the
time.
Ralph Glatt
pilgrimer
>I yank the PCT when I (so rarely) need them.
way cool Sean.
I figured one picture would be worth a thousand mis-spelled words so...
this is a lousy pic from a cheap camera but:
http://www.syndicomm.com/~pilgrimer/bag1/desk1.jpg
the //e and GS are sharing the monitor via the A/B switch on the right
-Bart
Keeper of the Network from Heck
Lockar
Well here my Rom 03:
Slot 1: OPEN (set to AppleTalk)
Slot 2: Apple Fast SCSI Card -> 540HP SCSI HD, Apple CD 300e
Slot 3: Transwarp GS
Slot 4: Doctor Design Sound Card
Slot 5: Apple Super Drive Card (two Super drives)
Slot 6: OPEN (two 5 1/4 drives)
Slot 7: Ramfactor Card with PowerBackup Pack
RAM SLOT: (I have to look to make sure) AE GS RAM 4mb
I no longer own this Apple //e any more. I sold this on ebay back
around Christmas time, however this is what I used to have.
Plat Apple //e
Slot 1: AppleTalk Card
Slot 2: Apple SCSI Card -> Apple SCSI 80mb drive
Slot 3: Timecard Pro
Slot 4: Apple Mouse Card with Apple Mouse
Slot 5: Unidisk Card (two 3 1/2 UniDisk Drives)
Slot 6: Apple 5 1/4 drive card with DUO Drive
Slot 7: Transwarp IIe
RAM SLOT: Standard 64k/80col card (small verison)
Link of picture:
http://www.locutus.org/ebaypics/appleiie1.jpg
http://www.locutus.org/ebaypics/appleiiein2.jpg
Plat Apple //e
This is what I am working on(this one I am going to keep)
Slot 1: OPEN
Slot 2: RamFactor Card with power back up
Slot 3: OPEN (Going to get another TimeCard Pro for it)
Slot 4: OPEN (Going to get another Mousecard have mouse)
Slot 5: Laser UDC (Two Apple 3.5 Drives)
Slot 6: Apple 5 1/4 drive card (two 5 1/4 drives)
Slot 7: OPEN
RAM SLOT: Standard 64k/80col card (small version)
-Lockar
-Lockar
Mitchell Spector
> Slot 4: Doctor Design Sound Card
I'm curious, has anyone confirmed the function of this card? If it is
indeed a stereo card, a very simple way to test it is to plug in a pair of
headphones and listen to the Music Construction Set GS demo (or the
full version). The FTA's X-Mas Demo is also filled with nice examples
of stereo audio but not as blunt as Music Construction Set.
Here's an interesting blurb in the June 2002 'The Lamp', from Tony Diaz...
(I've updated the out of date link)
----begin clipping---
DOCTOR DESIGN SOUND CARD
""""""""""""""""""""""""
Has anyone ever heard of a Doctor Design sound card? I have been browsing
a bunch of IIGS systems for sale and come across a couple of systems with
Doctor Design cards in their machines. They have a headset jack and an
on/off switch, and it appears that they plug into the internal modular
sound connector. Ever heard of this before?
-Jim
(DIGISOFT, Cat 17, Top 30, Msg 12)
>>>>>
"""""
I know a guy that works for Doctor Design, it's a for contract hardware
design facility - By the amount (or lack there of) I have surmised that
this card is some type of amp or signal stabilizer. To provide line level
perhaps. I've got a couple here. Seems they were popular in schools and
schools had headphones a lot. I've never hooked it up. He couldn't tell me
what it was because they made it under contract. (No secrets, just no
knowledge)
http://apple2.gs/images/InterfaceCards/images/Sound.Music/image-html/DoctorDesignSound.html
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I'd agree with Tony, there doesn't seem to be enough components on-board
to demultiplex the audio channels from the Ensoniq DOC. Though I'd still like
to know what exactly it does...
As far as I knew, the only stereo cards were: SuperSonic, Audio Animator,
SonicBlaster, SoundMeister, Futuresound and GStereo. Is there a 7th?
Mitchell Spector
Steve ][
What is the Doctor Design Sound Card? I don't think I ever heard of
that one.
On Tue, 31 May 2005 19:02:26 -0400, Lockar <loc...@locutus.DOTorg>
wrote:
>
>
> Well here my Rom 03:
>
> Slot 1: OPEN (set to AppleTalk)
> Slot 2: Apple Fast SCSI Card -> 540HP SCSI HD, Apple CD 300e
> Slot 3: Transwarp GS
> Slot 4: Doctor Design Sound Card
[snip]
Lockar
Opps... I ment Design Doctor Sound Card. LOL
-Lockar
In article <65ks91huc5685bb3t...@4ax.com>, Steve ][
David Wilson
Isn't there already a socket for the No Slot Clock? It is the one with the
16KB/32KB formware chip plugged into it on the IIc motherboard...
The whole point of the NSC (Dallas DS1216 series of chips - the DS1216E
looks like it would be the one) is that you just unplug a ROM/EPROM, put
the NSC in the socket and plug the ROM into the top of the NSC.
--
David Wilson School of IT & CS, Uni of Wollongong, Australia
Mitchell Spector
>On Sat, 28 May 2005 19:19:57 -0400, Mitchell Spector
><mitc...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>[...]
>>"Sean Fahey" <a2...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>Ooops.
>>>
>>>For giggles and grins, describe your tricked out, best system(s). Kinda like
>>>a virtual car show for Apple II computers.
>
>Wow Mitch, still kicking around in ][-land, huh? Cool.
Not necessarily comp.sys.apple2 (I've not been a regular here about 6
years now, though a couple of weeks ago got nostaligic and thought I'd
pop back in temporarily, so here I am, for now). :) Never stopped tinkering
with or thinking about the Apple II, so yep, absolutely!
Steve? Could "sc" be Steve Craft? (or if not, maybe Jenson or Buggie?).
Mitchell Spector
Gregory Weston
"Sean Fahey" <a2...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Ooops.
>
> For giggles and grins, describe your tricked out, best system(s). Kinda like
> a virtual car show for Apple II computers.
>
> My favorite Apple IIe is a platinum, with an 8MHz ZipChip and NoSlot clock
> installed, AppleCD, 80SC and full completement of drives.
>
> Aux: Sequential Systems Meg80z
> Slot 1: Apple Workstation Card
> Slot 2: Apple Super Serial Card with Turbo ABS installed
> Slot 3: empty
> Slot 4: Apple Slinky 1MB card
> Slot 5: Apple 3.5 Superdrive Controller
> Slot 6: Apple 5.25 Controller
> Slot 7: Apple HS SCSI Controller
>
> My main GS is a ROM 3, 5.25MB
>
> Slot 1: SecondSight
> Slot 2: LANceGS
> Slot 3: ZipGS 10/64
> Slot 4: Audio Animator
> Slot 5: Apple 3.5 Superdrive Controller
> Slot 6: CFFA
> Slot 7: Apple HS SCSI Controller
> RAM Slot: Sequential Systems 4MB
>
> I also have "theme" machines... like Apple IIe's and GS with nothing but
> topline Applied Engineering stuff installed, etc.
>
> What's in your case?
Apple //e, with enhancement kit added after purchase.
Slot 1: AE Serial Pro
Slot 2: SSC
Slot 3: TransWarp (original)
Slot 4: Apple Mouse card
Slot 5: Empty
Slot 6: Disk ][ controller
Slot 7: UniDisk 3.5 controller
AUX: Apple Extended 80-column card.
I've got a GS that has a HS SCSI card and a FingerPrint board.
--
Goal 2005: Convincing James Hetfield to cover the Strawberry Shortcake
"Are You Berry Berry Happy?" song.
Sean Fahey
news:429d1495$1...@news.uow.edu.au...
> "Sean Fahey" <a2...@hotmail.com> writes:
> >For anyone designing an internal CFFA/RAM card for the //c and //c+ ,
please
> >also consider adding a socket for a NoSlot Clock. I'd buy it (probably
> >several).
>
> Isn't there already a socket for the No Slot Clock? It is the one with the
> 16KB/32KB formware chip plugged into it on the IIc motherboard...
>
> The whole point of the NSC (Dallas DS1216 series of chips - the DS1216E
> looks like it would be the one) is that you just unplug a ROM/EPROM, put
> the NSC in the socket and plug the ROM into the top of the NSC.
If you install a NSC, then the Apple RAM card won't fit. The NSC sits too
high.
Sean Fahey
"Sean Fahey" <a2...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:kADne.5071$Ag1....@newssvr12.news.prodigy.com...
> If you install a NSC, then the Apple RAM card won't fit. The NSC sits too
> high.
And yes, I know there is a work-around for soldering the NSC directly to the
RAM card - but I was hoping anyone designing a new RAM card would take into
account that users would appreciate the option.
heuser...@freenet.de
to demultiplex the audio channels from the Ensoniq DOC. Though I'd
still like
to know what exactly it does...
According to the picture it doesn't look stereo to me. Probably a mono
amplifier with a LM386 (or similar). It seems to have an input on the
lower left for the internal speaker of the GS - maybe mixing both the
DOC and the speaker for the sole purpose to be able to switch both
on/off.
I find it more noteworthy that the card is relatively large - in
comparison to the small amount of components.
poster
Hmm. After looking at an old issue of the LAMP, I think you guys are
right...
-- Poster
"Do not follow where the path may lead;
instead blaze a new trail and annoy an environmentalist." -- me
Steve ][
Yep, "sc" is me.
Your memory *is* good. :)
On Thu, 02 Jun 2005 03:45:01 -0400, Mitchell Spector
PZ
business shortly after its introduction.
>>What are in the slots of a IIc+?
There's a memory expansion header, don't know what signals are
available though.
>>Anyone got a schematic or block diagram of the slotmaker chip. (I am
>>assuming it has a slot maker chip.)
If anyone does, it would be Tony Diaz. I know he has the entire //e
MMU schematic, he might have the slotmaker. If anything, we can get a
lot of the slotmaker info from the II+. IMHO, the IIe is just a II+
with better hardware memory management, and LSI logic to replace all of
the common IC's on the II+. (Sure there's more ram, a 65c02, and more
refined ROM code too.) But I don't think that there's such drastic
difference when you look closer.
>>- I'd want to place the CFFA rom in the c600 region so the IIc+ would
>>automatically downshift...
>>- I'd want a switch to allow use of the smartport 5.25 but I could live
>>without it.
why "slot 6"? I think we can hard wire it to the slot 7 (or 5?) I/O
address without much more work.
Sean brought up a good point. Smartwatch/NoSlotClock capability would
be very nice.
I think that apple made memory expansion in the IIC+ very easy, I
believe all the signals are there, similar to how the GS is set up. If
one were to use the mem expansion slot for this project, might as well
include a 1mb simm. If I go to Kfest, I'll order a IIc+ reference from
Syndicomm and have them bring it. (Chances are not looking good for me
this year, but maybe something will happen last minute)
- Paul
Michael J. Mahon
And even then it loses time anytime you do a disk access...
Since the problem is physical interference, you could always solder some
ribbon cable to the ROM socket and attach the NSC in a non-interfering
location.
-michael
8-voice music synthesizer using NadaNet networking!
Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/
Sean Fahey
news:1117861902.5...@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
> include a 1mb simm. If I go to Kfest, I'll order a IIc+ reference from
> Syndicomm and have them bring it. (Chances are not looking good for me
> this year, but maybe something will happen last minute)
Sheppy isn't coming this year - the baby is due prior, so have him ship it
to you.