Re: A Few Apple II questions...

[labelas@hotmail.com (Labelas Enoreth)]

In article <19990804220335.02427.00004024@ng-ck1.aol.com>,
supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:

> The earlier ones.  It'll probably work on the later ones, but who
> needs two keypads?
Well, my whole question was that what model IIe had the external numeric
keypad connection? That's what this keypad seems to need, and all the
IIe's I've seen have the internal style connector for it.
 
> Normal behavior.  The UniDisk 3.5 has a CPU inside, so it is in
> charge of data transfer.  You won't be able to get the drive to work
> without the drive and even then, it'll be much slower.
Eh? I'm not sure I understand your wording?
Shouldn't the drive at the very least get polled when the bus is initialized?
It just sits there silently.
 
> Luckily, you can (reversably) turn the UniDisk 3.5 into an Apple
> 3.5 drive that'll work just like any regular IIGS drive (and a drive
> converted this way will even work on Macs with external disk
> ports).
> 
> Here's the link to a document that tells you how to do this:
> 
> http://ground.ecn.uiowa.edu/apple2/MiscInfo/Drives/unidisk35.labotomy
> 
> Ground is currently down, but when it comes back again, you
> can find out about the conversion through the above link.  It
> involves swapping some cables, no big deal.
Unfortunately, I have the earlier-model UniDisk which is unable to be
modified in that way. (Did all UniDisks have that embossed "LIRON" logo on
the insides of the case?) Oh, and I know this sounds anal, but shouldn't
that be 'lobotomy'?


> >2> Was there and apple-made RGB monitor for use with the IIe (with a RGB
> >card of course)...does the AppleColor RGB (used with my IIgs) monitor work
> >with the IIc?
> 
> Yes and yes.
> 
> Apple made a digital RGB monitor for use with he IIe.
> 
> The AppleColor RGB can work with the IIc if you add an adapter
> called the Video-7.  http://www.allelec.com/ Alltech sells (or sold)
> them.  There were too versions, one for digital RGB monitors and
> one for analog ones.  The AppleColor RGB is an analog RGB
> monitor.
Ah. Well, I'll think about if I need one or not, do you recall how much
they ran, price-wise? Was the IIe RGB monitor uncommon? I've never seemed
to run into one in my many Apple II adventures...