Re: Titan Accelerator II

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article pubpc1@library.ucla.edu writes...

>spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector) wrote:
>>    I picked up some odds and ends on the weekend (still going through
>>it) and one interesting item is a Titan Accelerator II card. It appears
>>it may be faulty though, and so I have some questions about it:
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>Are you sure you don't have a Titan III plus IIe board?  This is
>a special card that, when plugged into an Apple III, disables all
>emulation blocking hardware and makes the III able to run IIe
>software.  With a 65C02, it will even run enhanced IIe software,
>but it won't do mousetext.

    No, definitely not. The Titan III-Plus-II (and III-plus-IIe) were
two cards that joined together, and I'm fairly sure the name of the
card was silk-screened onto the board.

    Mine came in a green box that says, "Accelerator IIe: 3 1/2 MHz
6502 Co-Processor board for the Apple II, II+ and IIe". It looks
fairly close to the photographs I've seen of the original version
of the card, back when it was called the Saturn Accelerator II
(Saturn Systems changed their name to Titan Technologies at some
point). It's an interesting theory though, considering this card
has a 65C02 and 64K of RAM. :) (there's a 2nd 40-pin chip below the
65C02 marked '2003-E/ G702050-15/ 7642-1' although I'm not sure what
it is). Oh, incidentally, the III-Plus-IIe board came with a plain
6502 on-board, not a 65C02.

    It probably has a faulty chip somewhere, there was a sticker on
the box that said "$100 - AS IS" which would seem to imply the store
selling it (years ago) hinted it might be defective. ;) I just hope
it's not the little sliver box or what appears to be a PAL chip.

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca