Re: Super II questions

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

Charles T. Turley (cturley@wco.com) wrote:

: What is your Ser. # on your Supper II board?  Mine is #75 and Nathan's 
: is #71. The pictures of his also seem to be missing the ROM's  - same as 
: your does. I've had mine for several years and it has all the ROMS 
: included. My guess is that it's a hybreed cross/prototype of something 
: like an Apple II+ and IIe (64k), with double Hi-Res video abilities. The 
: board I have is green. What color is yours? Nathan's appears to be clear 
: on a green plate (it hard to tell - as his pictures of it are grey 
: scale; gif and jpeg).

Mine has #72 on it. I decided to swap the IOU and keyboard ROM off my //e's 
original logic board, a rev B, and filled up the RAM sockets and put on the 
chips from an unenhanced //e. Then I plugged in a keyboard, disk card, and 
power supply and fired it up. I couldn't tell it from an unenhanced //e. The 
one difference I saw was when playing some old hires games. The colors were 
backward, i.e. stuff that's orange on normal IIs was purple and green/blue 
were swapped too. The board is white with bare traces. The self test failed
with "IOU FLAG" but I know the chip is good. Looking at my old //e board next
to this board, there seems to be little difference. Some things are in 
slightly different spots, most notably the speaker pins, but they seem to 
have all the same stuff.

: Also, does your Super II board have the names Walt Broedner and John 
: Macphee with a 7 in a circle next to the names to the right? Again,
: Nathan's does, but mine doesn't! :O

It has a circled 6 next to the names.

: I really don't know too much about hardware, cards and burning, dumping 
: or duplicating ROMS via an EEPROM, etc. But I just got an EEPROM 
: Programmer card for the Apple II (have no software for it and need the 
: software). Would it be possible to duplicate the ROMS I have to an 
: EEPROM  - that are missing from your Supper II, using such a EEPROM 
: card?

That would be kinda cool
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Randy Shackelford
shack@southwind.net