Re: An unusual Apple II card...

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m-rendon@USA.NET wrote:

>This card is an "Adaptive Peripherals Inc." G32 Adaptive firmware card
>rev D.  Dated 1988.  It has  two connectors on the card that hook to two
>cables that run to a switch box.  The switch box has a single switch, a
>red led, two headphone type connectors labeled sw-1 and sw-2 and another
>36 pin input/output connector on it.  Does anyone know what this card
>might be used for?

The Adaptive Firmware Card is an alternative input/output
interface to an Apple II computer for the disabled.  To
you or I, it is not much use, but to a disabled person who
may be more or less immobile, this card provides a
window to the world to communicate through.  Tons of
software have been written for the Apple II and Apple IIGS
from word processor interface to speech synthesis
designed to, through this card, allow a disabled user to
communicate.

With the card, an organization that knows how to use it
and obtain the needed software can transform an Apple
IIGS into an adaptive system that can do the same
stuff that a system costing $32,000 designed from the
ground up could only begin to do.

If you cannot locate such an organization, contact Joe
Kohn at http://www.crl.com/~joko to see where to send
it.