Re: What's a Titan Neptune card do?

[Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.bc.ca>]

Andrew Brenner wrote:

> Hello all.  I just picked up a IIe in very good shape from a local
> thrift store. I ended up getting the IIe itself, a duodisk drive(s), a
> monitor II, an imagewriter, and two disk boxes full of floppies in
> addition to a small stack of software in their appopriate folders /
> binders that they originally came in.
>
> I popped open the lid to see what's inside and the card in the "aux
> connector" slot was apparently made by Titan Technologies.  The only
> other thing that is printed on the card is the word 'Neptune'.  I'm
> guessing this is the name of the card.  Unfortunately, I don't know what
> this card does. This is the first IIe I've ever had and luckily I did
> get the manual with it, but I don't know enough to really notice any
> change in operation due to this card.  Any help would be greatly
> appreciated of course. Thanks!
>
> --andrew--

I used to have one of those at one time. It's an extended 80 column card.
That is it allows your computer to display 80 letters across instead of 40.

It also contains some memory. It came with either 64k, 128k, or 192k fully
loaded.
In the early days they used a different ways to access the memory over 64k.

The method used by Applied engineering, Checkmate and others became
standard but even then not a lot of software would use the extra RAM.
Unfortunately the Neptune card used a different method.  These cards came
with software to patch some programs so that they'd use the extra RAM


You're fortuate getting the manual, If you're lucky some of those disks
will
contain the software to patch a few programs so they'll recognize the card
or use it as a RAMdisk.

    Wayne