Re: Misc questions

[dmitton@mulberry.com (Douglas E. Mitton)]

In Mar 1993 I upgraded from a ROMFF to a ROM00 by purchasing the
342-0033 ROM chip from AllTech Electronics.  This added the ability to
use Smart Port devices, in this case my UniDisk 3.5.  This computer is
still in use, even with a modem, the kids love it.

On text transfers you lose a couple of characters each time the buffer
is saved to disk, BUT on protocal transfers (xmodem, etc) it is
perfect!

The AllTech instructions involve 2 shorting jumper staps (solderable)
on the mother board under the key board.

16K ROM   W1 Shorted (soldered), W2 open (cut)
32K ROM   W1 open (cut), W2 shorted (soldered)

Jumper W1 is located near the left edge of the MON ROM socket, W2 is
located directly between IOU and MMU devices.

The //c Technical Reference manual (ISBN 0-201-17727-7) is handy as
well.

Good luck, if you need any additional info feel free to contact me.

RKFAIRCLOTH@unca.edu (Rhonda K. Faircloth) wrote:

>I have a "PEEK(64447) = 255" Apple //c. Searching around the net (Thanks
>Nathan!) I've learned that it took a motherboard swap to upgrade to a
>"0" version of the rom, which fixes the serial timing bug and has an
>improved ROM. It makes common sense to me that what Apple was doing was
>giving you a factory-modified motherboard, and not a completeley new
>design. I'm a techie type person with a soldering hot and ready to go,
>I have EPROMS to burn (pun intended). Anybody out there have a description
>of what needed to be done to the motherboard so it would accept the newer
>(double in size of the older) ROM? I'm not as interested in the serial
>timing fix, but it wouldn't hurt. :)

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    * In Brockville, Ontario, Canada
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   EMail: dmitton@mulberry.com
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