Re: Couple of //e Questions....

[david@uow.edu.au (David Wilson)]

>Phil Beesley wrote:
>>
>> But the RamWorks III DOES use up a slot if you have an
>> International/PAL IIe -- the AUX slot is inline with Slot III and the
>> RamWorks prevents it from being used :-(
>>
>> Phil

Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.bc.ca> writes:

>But it doesn't use up an extra slot. It's a pretty rare IIe that doesn't
>have some kind of 80 column card installed.


Yes, but //e computers have the 80 col HARDWARE and FIRMWARE on the motherboard
and all that is required to have it function is some RAM in the Aux slot.

On an NTSC //e you can have a RAM card in the Aux slot and also have a card
in slot #3 (something that does not need the IOSEL/IOSTB ROM access signals
but does use the DEVSEL i/o select signal - for example a Stellation Mill
6809 co-processor card could have been used there). Unfortunately some bright
spark at Apple decided to put both slots inline on the PAL //e meaning that
only one can be used at a time. I have only seen one card that utilises this
dual slot arrangement, a 64KB 80 col card from Apple Australia with its own
RCA output socket on the back. It has a single gold finger that enters slot 3
and picks up -5V if I remember correctly.
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David Wilson  School of IT & CS, Uni of Wollongong, Australia