Re: Sorry - More Unknown ][ Cards!

[tdiaz@hypermall.com (Tony Diaz)]

jdtownend@aol.com wrote:

: "Mountain Computer MULTIFUNCTION (C) 1981" with a 13-pin and 10-pin header
: socket.  Multi I/O card?  Anyone have the pin-outs?

Serial, Parallel and Clock card. This one phantom slots each function to
another slot and most of the time, the first time it's put in the computer
you will probably not have the drives boot because it needs to be configured
but sice you have no books, you wouldn't know how. IT also has a small
PCB that sits under a chip on the II+ motherboard and a wire that attaches
to the card from that PCB.  The same location isn't on the //e motherboard
allthough I'm sure it exists in theory on the //e motherboard. I've enver had
both schematics on the table at the same time. 


: "Stellation Two ==/ The Mill (C) 1980" - a really wierd looking card with
: a switch on it, hand labelled PACAL / OS9.

 It's a 6809 Co-processor card. 
Funny thing about Co-processor cards, many were made for the Apple II,
everything available over time it seemed, yet nothing was embraced by the
masses. Unless you are a hacker / programmer type or have some specific 
prgram that calls for it, it's not going to do you any good.


: "Microsoft (c) 1980" - A small card with some memory chips and a Z80 on
: it.

Get a copy of a bootable Apple CP/M disk and play the original Hunt the
Wumpus game, or Zork or many other CP/M titles. Not really a 
'co-processor' card exactly, but could have been used in that same way.
CP/M was the Cross Manufacturer Common OS that MS-DOG became.

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