Re: IIgs with unknown ADB device...?

[Jack Countryman <jcountry@seidata.com>]

Labelas Enoreth wrote:
> 
> In article <slrn8g14sq.2114.lee@lcremeans.erols.com>, lcremeans@erols.com wrote:
> 
> >
> > That's a Signetics-made 80c31-ish microcontroller set up as an ADB
> > interface. It more than likely has some custom programming in its ROM.
> >
> >
> > This is a National 93C46 64kx16 serial EEPROM.
> >
> > From this, I could say with some certainty that it's supposed to be a
> > dongle. I'm not 100% on that, though.
> >
> > -lee
> >
> 
> Hmm. Well, at least I know some more about it...so, assuming it _is_ a
> dongle of some kind, what are the chances that it was made for the IIgs?
> Is it possible there was something that actually utilized a security
> dongle for an Apple II, or did some confused soul simply slap a Mac dongle
> onto the IIgs for some unknown reason?
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There were some programs for the Apple II family that used 'dongles'.  I
had a couple of those in years past (specialized software for
scoring/profiling tests).  At least in the cases I know of (including
some others I saw but never used/owned) the dongles were made to fit a
serial/modem or joystick port (IIC) instead of an adb port.  Think about
it...if it was made for an adb port on an Apple II, then it would have
had to be IIGS specific.  I'm not saying it couldn't have been, just
that it seems unlikely?