Re: Whats a ROM card?

["Paul R. Santa-Maria" <paul@wccnet.org>]

Matthew S. Carpenter <msc1983@mac.com> wrote:
>     I was going through all the things I got with My IIGS, and I opened up
> this one box, and found a card and what looks like a bunch of chips that I
> guess you're supposed to interchange on the card.  The card is labeled as
a
> "ROM CARD", it was made by Apple Computer.  I'd say its quite a bit older
> than the IIGS though, it has a copyright date of 1978.

Everything Charlie said is true.

The Apple II, II+, and the ROM card used ROMs that are incompatible with the
2732 series of EPROMs, which is what the others seem to be, unless you
modify the ROM card.  In other words, be wary about plugging in the spare
ROMs you have into the ROM card.

The "Inspector" ROM is a third-party add-on that went into the empty $D800
socket and provided you with a set of disk sector read/write tools for DOS
3.2 and DOS 3.3.  There was a companion ROM called "Watson, the Inspector's
Assistant" that replaced the Programmer's Aid #1 ROM at $D000.

Paul R. Santa-Maria
Monroe, Michigan USA