Re: Some II+ Questions. (ProDOS etc.)

[Stephen Shaw <stephen@apple2.org.za>]

On Wed, 06 Jun 2001 16:46:23 +0200, Linards Ticmanis wrote:

> David Empson wrote:
>
>> There was an early version of the Apple II System Utilities program
>> which worked on a 6502 processor.  I don't know which version it was,
>> off-hand, but I think it ran in 40-column mode, while the more recent
>> versions only work in 80-column mode and also require a 65C02 processor
>> (IIgs, IIc or enhanced IIe).
>
> Can somebody shed light on what version that was? That's exactly what
> I've been looking for.
>
>>
>> You can certainly use the primitive FILER and CONVERT programs from the
>> original ProDOS 1.0 system disk.
>
> Naah, they're so pathetic. ;-)
>
>> It would be rather difficult.  The board will probably fit, and the
>> power supply connector should be compatible, but the keyboard is
>> completely wrong, and the ][/][+ case doesn't have as many cutouts for
>> connectors from I/O cards.
>
> From photos I have the boards have the same width, only the IIe one is
> shorter, so that should fit. Cutouts shouldn't be a problem I think,
> it has these slits where you can just let stuff hang out.
> Probably the external Game connector could be a problem, it might have
> to be vanish behind the back of the case. However there is always the
> internal connector.
>
> As I already said above, do you (or anybody else) have info on the IIe
> keyboard protocol/connector/whatever? The photo shows it as something
> with two rows of pins, like a floppy cable connector, only longer. Is
> the IIe keyboard still an ASCII encoded self-contained thingy, or is
> it just a matrix that is handled by the motherboard like in a C64?
> That would of course be a problem. It's got to be ASCIIized somewhere
> though, so you could tap in at a later stage
Yes the IIe had an on board keyboard controller IC. The keyboard is a matrix
type.


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