Re: ][+ ROM Card

[pg@sff.net (Paul Guertin)]

In article <70c5kj$eq1$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, bluemeanie@my-dejanews.com says...
>   Christopher J Lewandowski-pearson <lewandow@u.arizona.edu> wrote:
> > Pardon my ignorance, but what is a ][+ ROM card??
> >
> It's a card with 6 DIP sockets on it just like on a ][+ motherboard and a
> switch to turn it on and off.  Flip the switch, press reset, and the ROMs on
> the card override the ones on the motherboard.	Wanna see a //e with Integer
> Basic and Old Monitor - in ROM?  Just fill a ROM card with original Apple ][
> ROMs and there ya go.  It's useful for backwards compatibility, but not a
> whole lot more.

If it has the "old monitor" ROMs on it, it can be very useful when you want
to deprotect software, because ctrl-reset always dumps you in the Monitor.

Also, you can replace the ROMs with EPROMs (2716, I think) and completely 
change the personality of the computer. In the old days, some companies 
used to sell EPROM sets for that card -- mostly cracking aids, but I seem 
to recall a company that replaced the BASIC interpreter with some version 
of Forth. Does this ring a bell, anyone?

I've always wanted to put a simple editor/assembler on one of those,
but never got round to doing it. Sigh.

Paul Guertin
pg@sff.net